Re: [PATCH v2 04/18] maintenance: initialize task array

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On 7/23/2020 3:57 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> +static void initialize_tasks(void)
>> +{
>> +	int i;
>> +	num_tasks = 0;
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NUM_TASKS; i++)
>> +		tasks[i] = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct maintenance_task));
>> +
>> +	tasks[num_tasks]->name = "gc";
>> +	tasks[num_tasks]->fn = maintenance_task_gc;
>> +	tasks[num_tasks]->enabled = 1;
>> +	num_tasks++;
> 
> Are we going to have 47 different tasks initialized by code like
> this in the future?  I would have expected that you'd have a table
> of tasks that serves as the blueprint copy and copy it to the table
> to be used if there is some need to mutate the table-to-be-used.

Making it a table will likely make it easier to read. I hadn't
thought of it.

At the start, I thought that the diff would look awful as we add
members to the struct. However, the members that are not specified
are set to zero, so I should be able to craft this into something
not too terrible.

Thanks,
-Stolee



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