Re: [RFC] git-send-email: Cache generated message-ids, use them when prompting

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

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On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:08:00PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> writes:
> > +# Return an array of cached message-ids, ordered by "relevance". It
> > +# might make sense to take the Subject of the new mail as an extra
> > +# argument and do some kind of fuzzy matching against the old
> > +# subjects, but for now "more relevant" simply means "newer".
> > +sub msgid_cache_getmatches {
> > +	my ($maxentries) = @_;
> > +	$maxentries //= 10;
> 
> The //= operator is mentioned in perl581delta.pod, it seems, and
> none of our Perl scripted Porcelains seems to use it yet.  Is it
> safe to assume that everybody has it?

This operator is new in Perl 5.10.  If you want the code to work on
RHEL/CentOS 5, you need to avoid it, since they only have 5.8 available.

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