Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Thiago Farina <tfransosi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Would be too churn/noise (at this point) to rename cmd_struct to builtin_cmd?
>
> The name has served us well, I do not see a compelling reason to change it
> to anything else, and I suspect the name stayed unchanged because nobody
> else found such a reason, either.
>
> So... if you are unwilling to make a compelling case telling us why the current
> name does not work, I do not think it is likely that anybody finds such a change
> necessary, welcome, or even tolerable.
Having said that, I would agree that if I were writing git.c from
scratch today, I would have done
static struct builtin_cmd builtin_cmd[] = { ...
insead of the current
static struct cmd_struct commands[] = { ...
just because I think it makes more sense. But that reason suggests
it is a mere code churn of no value, after all these years.
"Because the non-POSIX non-ANSI-C platform I am porting for stomps
on the end-user program's namespace, and cmd_struct is one of the
victims" could be a reason that is better than "just because I think
it makes more sense", but even then, there would probably be a
better ways other than renaming the symbols in end-user code
(i.e. Git) to solve such a name clash.
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