Re: [PATCH] attr: don't confuse prefixes with leading directories

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:23:01AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I'm not sure if the right solution is to change the popping loop to:
> >
> >   /* we will never run out of stack, because we always have the root */
> >   while (attr_stack->origin) {
> >           ...
> 
> Yeah, that makes sense, as that existing check "attr_stack &&" was a
> misguided defensive coding, that was _not_ defensive at all as we didn't
> do anything after we stop iterating from that loop and without checking
> dereferenced attr_stack->origin, which was a simple bogosity.
> 
> >
> > Or to be extra defensive and put:
> >
> >   if (!attr_stack)
> >           die("BUG: we ran out of attr stack!?");
> >
> > after the loop, or to somehow handle the case of an empty attr stack
> > below (which is hard to do, because it can't be triggered, so I have no
> > idea what it would mean).
> 
> And this is even more so.

I wasn't clear: the second one is "even more so" making sense, or "even
more so" misguided defensive coding?

-Peff
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