Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> I ended up avoiding write_or_die() primarily because there is >> nothing "Git" about this helper, which is a poor-man's emulation >> of "dd if=/dev/zero". It felt a bit too much to pull cache.h in >> as dependency for it. > > I don't find it any more "Git" than xwrite() or die_errno(), really, but > I am quite happy with what you have here. True. I view "git-compat-util.h" as "projects, not limited to Git, would benefit by its help to use POSIX api more sensibly", while "cache.h" is "things that are about Git". write_or_die() is certainly in the former category, but is not available without "cache.h" X-<.
