Re: [CLEANUP PATCH RESEND] git wrapper: Make while loop more reader-friendly

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On Friday 2009 January 02 12:07:52 you wrote:
> It is not a good practice to prefer performance over readability in
> something as performance uncritical as finding the trailing slash
> of argv[0].
>
> So avoid head-scratching by making the loop user-readable, and not
> hyper-performance-optimized.

> -	do
> -		--slash;
> -	while (cmd <= slash && !is_dir_sep(*slash));
> +	while (cmd <= slash && !is_dir_sep(*slash))
> +		slash--;

What confused people?  The predecrement or the do/while?  Should people that 
don't understand one of those be hacking on git?

That said, I'm not opposed to the patch.  It is easier on the eyes, though I 
prefer the one-liner:
for (; cmd <= slash && !is_dir_sep(*slash); --slash);
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