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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: santiago@nyu.edu
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, sunshine@sunshineco.com,
	walters@verbum.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] builtin/tag: move format specifier to global var
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:23:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbmzf4raz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160922185317.349-2-santiago@nyu.edu> (santiago@nyu.edu's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:53:12 -0400")

santiago@nyu.edu writes:

> From: Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu>
>
> The format specifier will be likely used in other functions throughout
> git tag. One likely candidate to require format strings in the future is
> the gpg_verify_tag function. However, changing the signature of
> functions such as for_each_ref or verify_tag would be quite burdensome.

I do not understand the above excuse.  for-each-ref takes a
callback data pointer exactly because it wants you to be able to
extend what data the callback function gets without changing its
signature.  builtin/tag.c::verify_tag() is a helper static to the
file--why should it be "burdensome" to change it to fit your needs?

Adding technical debt by going backwards is never a good idea
especially done to add a new feature that is not desperately needed.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-22 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22 18:53 [RFC/PATCH 0/6] Add --format to tag verification santiago
2016-09-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] builtin/tag: move format specifier to global var santiago
2016-09-22 20:23   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-09-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] gpg-interface: add GPG_VERIFY_QUIET flag santiago
2016-09-22 20:25   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-22 20:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 3/6] ref-filter: Expose wrappers for ref_item functions santiago
2016-09-22 20:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 4/6] tag: add format specifier to gpg_verify_tag santiago
2016-09-22 20:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-23 14:36     ` Santiago Torres
2016-09-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] builtin/verify-tag: Add --format to verify-tag santiago
2016-09-22 21:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-23 14:35     ` Santiago Torres
2016-09-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] builtin/tag: add --format argument for tag -v santiago
2016-09-22 21:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-23 14:34     ` Santiago Torres
2016-09-22 19:01 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/6] Add --format to tag verification Stefan Beller
2016-09-24 19:09   ` Jakub Narębski

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