Re: [PATCH 1/6] Bring notes.c template handling in line with commit.c.

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
> On Monday 20 June 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > On Saturday 18 June 2011, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > >> Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Please mention in the commit message that the commit merely replaces
> > > write_or_die()/int fd with the corresponding stdio functionality, and
> > > that there is no (intended) change in behavior. It was not apparent
> > > from your commit message that you had not made any other changes.
> > > 
> > > Otherwise the patch looks OK.
> > 
> > I had an impression that you would lose a lot of error checking, unless
> > you are careful, if you go from write_or_die() to stdio.
> 
> Yeah, write_or_die() dies on failure, while with fwrite/fprintf I guess one 
> needs to check the return value, and handle errors accordingly.

It appears I based my code on buildin/commit.c from 1.7.4.1 - I just
did not realize that this part changed much in between with 098d0e0e.
I'll look into that.

> An alternative solution would be to drop this patch, and instead use 
> strbuf_addf() to get the format printing functionality needed in PATCH 3/6.

I have thought about that, but that will make the i18n process for the
template much more awkward - and we probably don't want to reimplement
stdio formatting for strbuf.

-- 
Yann.
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