On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 08:40:33AM +0800, Tao Qingyun wrote: > >> - for (i = 0; i < argc; i++, strbuf_reset(&bname)) { > >> + for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) { > >> char *target = NULL; > >> int flags = 0; > >> > >> + strbuf_reset(&bname); > > > > This is not "trivial" nor "style fix", though. > > > > It is not "trivial" because it also changes the behaviour. Instead > > of resetting the strbuf each time after the loop body runs, the new > > code resets it before the loop body, even for the 0-th iteration > > where the strbuf hasn't even been used at all. It is not a "style > > fix" because we do not have a particular reason to avoid using the > > comma operator to perform two simple expressions with side effects > > inside a single expression. > > > Thank you and Jeff for your explanation. I think I get the point now. > > The third part of `for` statement is normally for a step. I think it's > improve readability even it does nothing in the first iteration. > > And, should I drop this part and resend the patch? I'm a newbie :). Sorry for the slow reply. For some reason I do not think your message here made it to the list (but I don't see anything obviously wrong with it). Anyway, yes, I think it is worth dropping this hunk and re-sending the else-if style fix as a separate patch (you may choose to re-send this hunk as its own patch, too, if you want to argue for its inclusion, but there is no sense in holding the actual style fix hostage). -Peff