On Thursday, February 16, 2023 11:10 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >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-<. I remember by first time in there, and thought why can't we use gnulib or libc and then realized that those dependencies don't port well either (no gcc on box). I am grateful for the existence of git-compat-util.
