On 2015-10-07 at 23:22:59 +0200, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > As to the patch, I cannot speak for Junio, of course, but my > > preference would be to keep the return type. Traditionally, functions > > that can fail either die() or return an int; non-zero indicates an > > error. In this case, it seems that we do not have any condition > > (yet...) under which an error could occur. It does not seem very > > unlikely that we may eventually have such conditions, though, hence my > > preference. > > Perhaps the attached is a better approach. > > Even though the current implementation of "pretend" implementation > does not, future generations are allowed to make pretend_sha1_file() > return failure when appropriate. For my original patch I didn't consider that pretend_sha1_file() might return failure in the future. I was just confused by the fact that the return value was seemingly useless (but now I realize that unused != useless ;-), sorry for the noise. Please disregard my patch and apply yours instead, if you see fit. > > builtin/blame.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c > index 203a981..fa24f8f 100644 > --- a/builtin/blame.c > +++ b/builtin/blame.c > @@ -2362,7 +2362,8 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct diff_options *opt, > convert_to_git(path, buf.buf, buf.len, &buf, 0); > origin->file.ptr = buf.buf; > origin->file.size = buf.len; > - pretend_sha1_file(buf.buf, buf.len, OBJ_BLOB, origin->blob_sha1); > + if (pretend_sha1_file(buf.buf, buf.len, OBJ_BLOB, origin->blob_sha1)) > + die("failed to create a fake commit for the working tree version."); > > /* > * Read the current index, replace the path entry with > -- 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