Sundararajan R <dyoucme@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am sorry for the mistakes in the code formatting. It was because I was in > a hurry that day and I wanted to submit a working patch. No need to apologize for mistakes. Mistakes are expected part of being human and the review process is designed to catch exactly that. The development is not a race to see who gets there first. It is a collaborative process to get to a better place together. Once you got something "working", stop and review your work to see if your definition of "working" is sensible. Is there a corner case you missed? Is the code formatted in a similar way as the existing code around the area you are touching? Are there better ways to do what you did? Take your time to make sure you would be happy with what you are sending out. > In the new patch I > am making, I am using check_filename() to see if there are files named "-" > and "@{-1}" in the working tree . Is this an appropriate way to check or is > there something else suggested? I think you are making it unnecessarily hard. With your patch, the code would look like this: if (argv[0]) { + if (!strcmp(argv[0], "-") && !argv[1]) /* "-" is the only argument */ + { + argv[0]="@{-1}"; + flag=1; + } if (!strcmp(argv[0], "--")) { argv++; /* reset to HEAD, possibly with paths */ } else if (argv[1] && !strcmp(argv[1], "--")) { rev = argv[0]; argv += 2; } /* * Otherwise, argv[0] could be either <rev> or <paths> and * has to be unambiguous. If there is a single argument, it * can not be a tree */ else if ((!argv[1] && !get_sha1_committish(argv[0], unused)) || (argv[1] && !get_sha1_treeish(argv[0], unused))) { /* * Ok, argv[0] looks like a commit/tree; it should not * be a filename. */ verify_non_filename(prefix, argv[0]); rev = *argv++; } else { /* Otherwise we treat this as a filename */ + if(flag) + argv[0]="-"; verify_filename(prefix, argv[0], 1); } } I was wondering what you are passing to verify_non_filename() that you did not touch. It would see "@{-1}", try to make sure that the working tree does not have a file with that name, and if there is the end user would be warned about ambiguity. If the user typed "git reset @{-1}", then that warning is very sensible, but when the end user only typed "git reset -", is there any ambiguity? -- 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