Re: [PATCH] submodule: stop sanitizing config options

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On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 05:23:51PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> >> -/*
> >> - * This function is intended as a callback for use with
> >> - * git_config_from_parameters(). It ignores any config options which
> >> - * are not suitable for passing along to a submodule, and accumulates the rest
> >> - * in "data", which must be a pointer to a strbuf. The end result can
> >> - * be put into $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS for passing to a sub-process.
> >> - */
> >> -int sanitize_submodule_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data);
> >> -
> >>  /*
> >>   * Prepare the "env_array" parameter of a "struct child_process" for executing
> >>   * a submodule by clearing any repo-specific envirionment variables, but
> >> - * retaining any config approved by sanitize_submodule_config().
> >> + * retaining any config in the environment.
> >>   */
> >>  void prepare_submodule_repo_env(struct argv_array *out);
> >>
> >>
> >> -Peff
> >
> > Hmph, Stefan, do you want to keep this (if you want to resurrect the
> > function in some future, for example)?
> 
> IMHO it is easier to revert or rewrite than to carry unused code?
> Unused code is not tested and untested code is broken code.
> And relying on broken code in the future will guarantee bugs.
> (Sure new code may also have bugs, but I just think that bugs
> in newly written code can be fixed easier)
> 
> I would prefer to get rid of it, i.e. taking that patch.

Keep in mind this squash is just dropping the _declaration_. The code
itself was dropped in the earlier patch. (And I agree there isn't a good
reason to keep it when we can easily "git revert" later).

-Peff
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