Hi, Le lundi 28 juillet 2008, Johannes Schindelin a écrit : > 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. In my last version the loop is reduced to: + do { + rev[rev_nr++] = get_commit_reference(argv[1]); + argc--; argv++; + } while (argc > 1); so it's very simple. And the stop condition is simpler in my version. > Your performance argument is weak IMHO, as this is not a big performance > hit, and command line parameter parsing is definitely not performance > critical. It feels a bit sloppy though. Regards, Christian. -- 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