On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:51 AM, He Sun <sunheehnus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 2014-03-01 19:21 GMT+08:00 Faiz Kothari <faiz.off93@xxxxxxxxx>: >>>> diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c >>>> index 10cb011..dee8716 100644 >>>> --- a/remote-curl.c >>>> +++ b/remote-curl.c >>>> @@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ static int rpc_service(struct rpc_state *rpc, struct discovery *heads) >>>> if (start_command(&client)) >>>> exit(1); >>>> if (preamble) >>>> - write_or_die(client.in, preamble->buf, preamble->len); >>>> + strbuf_write_or_die(client.in, preamble); >>>> if (heads) >>>> write_or_die(client.in, heads->buf, heads->len); >>> >>> This should be changed. May be you can use Ctrl-F to search write_or_die(). >>> Or if you are using vim, use "/ and n" to find all. >> >> It's not obvious from the patch fragment, but 'heads' is not a strbuf, >> so Faiz correctly left this invocation alone. > > That is a very good sign why this change is merely a code-churn and > not an improvement, isn't it? We know (and any strbuf user should > know) that ->buf and ->len are the ways to learn the pointer and the > length the strbuf holds. Why anybody thinks it is benefitial to > introduce another function that is _only_ for writing out strbuf and > cannot be used to write out a plain buffer is simply beyond me. As a potential GSoC student and newcomer to the project, Faiz would not have known that this would be considered unwanted churn when he chose the task from the GSoC microproject page [1]. Perhaps it would be a good idea to retire this item from the list? On the other hand, it did expose Faiz to the iterative code review process on this project and gave him a taste of what would be expected of him as a GSoC student, so the microproject achieved that important goal, and thus wasn't an utter failure. [1]: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/SoC-2014-Microprojects.md -- 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