Hi, On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Christian Couder wrote: > + rev = xmalloc((argc - 1) * sizeof(*rev)); > + > + do { > + struct commit *r = get_commit_reference(argv[1]); > + if (!r) > + return 1; > + rev[rev_nr++] = r; > + argc--; argv++; > + } while (argc > 1); > + > + return show_merge_base(rev, rev_nr, show_all); rev = xmalloc((argc - 1) * sizeof(*rev)); for (rev_nr = 0; rev_nr + 1 < argc; rev_nr++) { rev[rev_nr] = get_commit_reference(argv[rev_nr + 1]); if (!rev[rev_nr]) return !!error("Does not refer to a commit: '%s'", argv[rev_nr + 1]); } return show_merge_base(rev, rev_nr, show_all); I do not know about you, but I think this is not only shorter (in spite of adding a helpful error message), but also simpler to understand (not using convoluted do { } while logic), and therefore superior. Your performance argument is weak IMHO, as this is not a big performance hit, and command line parameter parsing is definitely not performance critical. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html