Re: [PATCH 1/2] [GSOC] ref-filter: add %(raw) atom

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> 于2021年5月29日周六 上午12:30写道:
>
> ZheNing Hu wrote:
> > Sorry for the weird, unclean `memcasecmp()`, I referred to memcmp()
> > in glibc before, and then I was afraid that my writing was not standard
> > enough like "UCHAR_MAX <= INT_MAX", I can't consider such an
> > extreme situation. So I copied it directly from gnulib:
> > https://github.com/gagern/gnulib/blob/master/lib/memcasecmp.c
>
> Yeah, I imagined you copied it from somewhere, but when you do that you
> need to transform the code to the style of the project. I've seen GNU
> code, and in my opinion it's too verbose and redundant. Not a good
> style.
>
> But more importantly: at the header of that file you can see the license
> is GPLv3, that's incompatible with the license of this project, which is
> GPLv2 only (see the note in COPYING).
>
> You can't just copy code like that. You need to be careful.
>

Now I notice the importance of license in open source project.

> And if you do copy code--even if allowed by the license--it's something
> that should be mentioned in the commit message, preferably with a link
> to the original, that way if there's trouble in the future with that
> code, we can follow the link and figure out why it was done that way.
>
> Also, it's just nice to give attribution to the people that wrote the
> original code.
>

Ok.

> > > Check the following resource for a detailed explanation of why my
> > > modified version is considered good taste:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/felipec/linked-list-good-taste
> >
> > OK. I will gradually standardize my code style.
>
> It is not a standard, it is my personal opinion, which is shared by
> Linus Torvalds, and I presume other members of the Git project.
>
> The style is not something that can be standardized, you get a feeling
> of it as you read more code of the project, write, and then receive
> feedback on what you write.
>

Yes it is. Reading and writing Git code has brought me a certain degree
of code style improvement. (this is indeed a kind of edification :) )

> It's like learning the slang of a new city; it takes a while.
>

Thanks for your guidance.

> Cheers.
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras

Thanks!
--
ZheNing Hu




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