On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:30 PM, babourn <ba.bourn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Subject: diff: used is_dot_or_dotdot() in code Use imperative voice: "use" rather than "used" > in accordance with the GSoC Microproject implemented This commentary will not have much meaning to someone reading the commit log months or years from now. Place it below the "---" line following your sign-off. > the call is_dot_or_dotdot() in the code in order to > further universalize the call to the function and > increase code continuity. It should be sufficient to explain the patch by just saying: Subject: replace manual "."/".." check with is_dot_or_dotdot() The rest of the explanatory text can be dropped since it doesn't add anything (meaningful) beyond what the subject says. > Signed-off-by: Brian Bourn <bab2177@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff-no-index.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c > index ba915af..44cce25 100644 > --- a/diff-no-index.c > +++ b/diff-no-index.c > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static int read_directory_contents(const char *path, > struct string_list *list) > return error("Could not open directory %s", path); > > while ((e = readdir(dir))) > - if (strcmp(".", e->d_name) && strcmp("..", e->d_name)) > + if (!is_dot_or_dotdot(e->d_name)) The patch is severely whitespace-damaged. (Did you post it through Nabble?) > string_list_insert(list, e->d_name); > > closedir(dir); > -- > 1.9.0 > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-GSoC-2014-diff-Imported-dir-h-and-renamed-read-directory-tp7605950p7605956.html > Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.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