Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl >> index be809e5..e974b11 100755 >> --- a/git-send-email.perl >> +++ b/git-send-email.perl >> @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ if (@alias_files and $aliasfiletype and defined $parse_alias{$aliasfiletype}) { >> ($sender) = expand_aliases($sender) if defined $sender; >> >> # returns 1 if the conflict must be solved using it as a format-patch argument >> -sub check_file_rev_conflict($) { >> +sub check_file_rev_conflict { > > Have you verified that the callers of this sub are OK with this > change? It used to force scalar context on its arguments but now it > does not. > > I am not saying I know the callers will get broken. I am trying to > make sure that this is *not* the result of blindly following > perlcritic output without understanding the ramifications of the > change. No Junio, I haven't blindly followed the perlcritic output. I've considered the ramifications, audited the callers, and run the tests to make sure that nothing breaks. >> @@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ sub recipients_cmd { >> >> my $sanitized_sender = sanitize_address($sender); >> my @addresses = (); >> - open my $fh, "$cmd \Q$file\E |" >> + open my $fh, q{-|}, "$cmd \Q$file\E" > > Strange quoting (why not just say "-|"?) aside Intentional. I thought it was a pretty way to differentiate between a mode string (which can only be <, >, or -|) and a filename string. If you don't share my taste, feel free to use quotes instead. > , if you are moving > away from the two-param form of open(), it would be a sane thing to > do to also stop concatenating the arguments to commands to avoid > shell metacharacter gotcha. It will make the resulting code much > safer. Yes, the file can be improved in many ways, but that is not the topic of this series. This series just makes the changes suggested by perlcritic gentle. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html