On 02/05/2014 07:25 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> These patches apply on top of gitster/nd/more-skip-prefix.
>
> I noticed that Duy's new function skip_prefix_defval() was mostly
> being called with its first and third arguments the same. So
> introduce a function skip_prefix_if_present() that implements this
> pattern.
I see I should have read the whole previous thread [1] before firing off
this patch series. What I learned when I read it just now:
* Johannes Sixt didn't think changes like the following improve
readability:
> - if (starts_with(arg, "--upload-pack=")) {
> - args.uploadpack = arg + 14;
> + if ((optarg = skip_prefix(arg, "--upload-pack=")) != NULL) {
> + args.uploadpack = optarg;
* René Scharfe submitted a patch to use a function parse_prefix()
(originally suggested by Peff) instead of Duy's suggested approach:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239569
His patch appears to have been overlooked.
* Duy seemed to offer to rewrite his patch series, but I don't think
that it has happened yet.
And then the conversation was drowned by Christmas eggnog.
I don't have a strong feeling about (Duy's proposal plus my patches) vs.
(René's parse_prefix() approach). But I definitely *do* like the idea
of getting rid of all those awkward magic numbers everywhere.
Michael
[1]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239438/focus=239569
--
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/
--
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