On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:11:40 -0700
Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Antonio Ospite <ao2@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Add a helper function to make it clearer that retrieving 'fetch'
> > configuration from the .gitmodules file is a special case supported
> > solely for backward compatibility purposes.
> > ...
>
> Then perhaps the new public function deserves a comment stating
> that?
>
Hi Junio,
a comment about that is added to submodule-config.h in patch 4/6 in
place of the comment about config_from_gitmodules.
I can add a note here as well if that one is not enough.
[...]
> > +void fetch_config_from_gitmodules(int *max_children, int *recurse_submodules)
> > +{
> > + struct fetch_config config = {
> > + .max_children = max_children,
> > + .recurse_submodules = recurse_submodules
> > + };
>
> We started using designated initializers some time ago, and use of
> it improves readability of something like this ;-)
>
Ah, TBH I didn't even consider whether it was allowed in git code, I
just used the construct out of habit.
Ciao,
Antonio
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