Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] diff: generate prettier filenames when using GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:30:49PM -0700, David Aguilar wrote:

> > FWIW, I find this name not very descriptive. From the name, I would
> > expect it to do the exact same thing as mkstemps, but be our own
> > personal implementation. But it is actually a wrapper that behaves
> > somewhat differently. So I wonder if "mkstemps_tmpdir" or something
> > would be a better name.
> 
> It does exactly what git_mkstemp() does, plus the extra
> suffix_len parameter.  If we rename this function we have to
> rename both.

Ah. Well, I think that is a crappy name, too, then, but it is not your
fault. ;) So if there is precedent, I guess somebody else thought it was
a good idea, and you should leave your patch as-is.

> I was not aware of the other code paths and only wanted to
> affect the one that I knew about.  I agree that making that the
> default behavior would be great, meaning we could drop the
> pretty_filename flag altogether.
> 
> If you and others agree that the user-friendly names are a good
> thing to have by default then I can rework patch 2/2.

Switching to user-friendly temp filenames for textconv was on my todo
list, so I definitely think it is a good idea.

-Peff
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