Re: [PATCH v2] archive-tar: fix a sparse 'constant too large' warning

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Hi Junio,

On Wed, 10 May 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, I had a similar comment in the commit message (but much more
> > verbose than your concise addition above), but I edited it several
> > times, without finding a wording that I liked. I eventually removed
> > it, because it didn't really add any value. :(
> 
> I tend to agree that the proposed additional comment does not add much
> value.  It assures the readers that we (at the time of applying this
> patch) know that the earlier use of ULL was not done with a good reason
> but was merely an accident, and strengthens the claim that this is a
> good change, but the correctness of the change is already obvious, and
> the readers would understand without being explained where the
> incorrectness we have to fix with this patch came from, I would think.

Future me would find that comment in the commit message very clarifying,
though: why was that code there? Ah, that's why.

Now I have to dig through the mailing list to find out.

Ciao,
Dscho



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