Re: [PATCH] git-filter-branch: avoid collisions with variables in eval'ed commands

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:33:31PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:13:01PM -0600, newren@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Avoid using simple variable names like 'i', since user commands are eval'ed
> >> and may clash with and overwrite our values.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Almost-acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > But:
> >
> >>-i=0
> >>+git_filter_branch_count=0
> >
> > Why branch_count? It counts commits, not branches, doesn't it?
> 
> Oh, I was just changing i->git_filter_branch_i, then thought as long
> as it was long I might as well use a word instead of "i".  Didn't
> think about the combined meaning.  How about
> "git_filter_branch_commit_count"?  Maybe a double underscore between
> the "namespace" and the "variable"?

Oh, I sort of thought it's "git-filter branch count", not
"git-filter-branch count". I'm dumbed down from all day spent in IKEA
I guess. :/

I'd personally just use $__git_i, $__git_commit or something, but YMMV.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty
in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr
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