Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > which I think is the prevalent style in our codebase. The same for > the other loop we see in the new code below. > > - avoid assignments in conditionals when you do not have to. commit a77a48c259d9adbe7779ca69a3432e493116b3fd Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 28 13:55:59 2014 -0800 combine-diff: simplify intersect_paths() further [...] + while ((p = *tail) != NULL) { Because we can. At any rate, I am not going to put any more work into this patch as it is decidedly not worth the bad taste this discussion leaves in my mouth. And I don't want any code marked as written by me that does not correspond to what I'd be willing to write. So please make sure to put any rewrites in a separate commit with different authorship. Thanks -- David Kastrup -- 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