> On 10 Aug 2016, at 19:18, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 03:04:01PM +0200, larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>> +int packet_write_gently_fmt(int fd, const char *fmt, ...) >>> +{ >>> + static struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT; >>> + va_list args; >>> + >>> + strbuf_reset(&buf); >>> + va_start(args, fmt); >>> + format_packet(1, &buf, fmt, args); >>> + va_end(args); >>> + packet_trace(buf.buf + 4, buf.len - 4, 1); >>> + return (write_in_full(fd, buf.buf, buf.len) == buf.len ? 0 : -1); >>> +} >> >> Could the end of this function just be: >> >> return packet_write_gently(fd, buf.buf, buf.len); >> >> ? I guess we'd prefer to avoid that, because it incurs an extra >> memmove() of the data. >> >> Similarly, I'd think this could share code with the non-gentle form >> (which should be able to just call this and die() if returns an error). >> Though sometimes the va_list transformation makes that awkward. > > Yes. Peff just posted that he tried the shared code idea but the result ended up ugly. > Also regarding the naming, please have "_gently" at the end; that is > how all other function families with _gently variant are named, I > think. OK, I will rename them. Thanks, Lars -- 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