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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert: clarify seemingly bogus OPT_END repetition
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 06:48:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160706104800.GA28798@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607060901430.6426@virtualbox>

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:03:44AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > By the way, I notice that the error message when concat fails is just:
> > 
> >   if (parse_options_concat(options, ARRAY_SIZE(options), cp_extra))
> > 	die(_("program error"));
> > 
> > Should this become:
> > 
> >         die("BUG: not enough room to concatenate options");
> > 
> > as part of your BUG cleanups elsewhere?
> 
> Not really. I do not have time for a crusade through all of the die()
> statements to determine whether they're really bug reports. You refer to
> my clean-up of merge-recursive.c, right? That was a necessary prerequisite
> for the patch to stop die()ing in case of errors.

Yeah. I didn't look at it all that closely, but it looked like you hit
places outside of merge-recursive, too. I agree it is not worth
including unless you are crusading, though (and anyway, my patch gets
rid of the message entirely).

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-05 11:58 [PATCH] revert: clarify seemingly bogus OPT_END repetition Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-05 20:28 ` Jeff King
2016-07-05 20:44   ` Jeff King
2016-07-05 21:15     ` Jacob Keller
2016-07-06  7:01       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06 11:09         ` Michael J Gruber
2016-07-06 13:16           ` Over-/underquoting, was " Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06 20:15             ` Jacob Keller
2016-07-09 15:34               ` Michael J Gruber
2016-07-09 23:35                 ` Eric Wong
2016-07-06  7:28     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06  7:03   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06 10:48     ` Jeff King [this message]

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