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From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] convert any hard coded .gitmodules file string to the MACRO
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:26:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170802172633.GA36159@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4ltrf30q.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 08/01, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> 
> >>>   @@ -233,18 +233,18 @@ void gitmodules_config(void)
> >>>                 strbuf_addstr(&gitmodules_path, "/.gitmodules");
> >>
> >>
> >> Did you mean to also change "/.gitmodules" ??
> >
> > Goog point. We should pick that up as well. However as we do not have
> > a macro for that, we'd have to have 2 calls to strbuf API
> >
> >     strbuf_addch(&sb, '/');
> >     strbuf_addstr(&sb, GITMODULES);
> 
> Ehh, doesn't string literal concatenation work here?  I.e. something
> like:
> 
>     strbuf_addstr(&gitmodules_path, "/" GITMODULES_FILE);
> 
> 
> >>>                 if (pos < 0) { /* .gitmodules not found or isn't merged */
> >>>                         pos = -1 - pos;
> >>>                         if (active_nr > pos) {  /* there is a .gitmodules
> >>> */
> >>
> >>
> >> It might also be nice to change the literals in the comments to
> >> use the macro.
> 
> The reason you want this patch is not like we want to make it easy
> to rename the file to ".gitprojects" later, right?  The patch is
> about avoiding misspelled string constant, like "/.gitmdoules",
> without getting caught by the compiler, no?

Yes, it was mostly about preventing mistakes and having the compiler
help you out a bit, so changing the comments isn't really needed.

> 
> Assuming that I am correctly guessing the intention, I think it is a
> bad idea to rename these in the comments.
> 
> 

-- 
Brandon Williams

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-02 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-11 22:04 [PATCH 0/3] Convert grep to recurse in-process Brandon Williams
2017-07-11 22:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] repo_read_index: don't discard the index Brandon Williams
2017-07-11 23:51   ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-12 17:27     ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-11 23:58   ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-12 17:23     ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-11 22:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] setup: have the_repository use the_index Brandon Williams
2017-07-12  0:00   ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-12  0:07     ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-12 17:30     ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-12  0:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-12 18:01     ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-12 20:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-12 21:33         ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-12 21:40           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-18 21:34             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-11 22:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository' Brandon Williams
2017-07-11 22:44   ` Jacob Keller
2017-07-12 18:54     ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-12  0:04   ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-12 18:56     ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-12  0:25   ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-12 18:49     ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-12  7:42 ` [PATCH 0/3] Convert grep to recurse in-process Jeff King
2017-07-12 18:06   ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-12 18:17     ` Jeff King
2017-07-12 18:24       ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-12 18:33         ` Jeff King
2017-07-12 18:09   ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-12 18:17     ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-12 18:27     ` Jeff King
2017-07-14 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 " Brandon Williams
2017-07-14 22:28   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] repo_read_index: don't discard the index Brandon Williams
2017-07-14 22:28   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] repository: have the_repository use the_index Brandon Williams
2017-07-14 22:28   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository' Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05   ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Convert grep to recurse in-process Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 01/10] repo_read_index: don't discard the index Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 02/10] repository: have the_repository use the_index Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 03/10] cache.h: add GITMODULES_FILE macro Brandon Williams
2017-07-31 23:11       ` [PATCH] convert any hard coded .gitmodules file string to the MACRO Stefan Beller
2017-08-01 13:14         ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-08-01 17:35           ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-01 20:26             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-02 17:26               ` Brandon Williams [this message]
2017-08-02 17:46               ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 04/10] config: add config_from_gitmodules Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 05/10] submodule: remove submodule.fetchjobs from submodule-config parsing Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 06/10] submodule: remove fetch.recursesubmodules " Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 07/10] submodule: check for unstaged .gitmodules outside of config parsing Brandon Williams
2017-07-31 23:41       ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-02 17:41         ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 18:00           ` Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 08/10] submodule: check for unmerged " Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 09/10] submodule: merge repo_read_gitmodules and gitmodules_config Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:05     ` [PATCH v3 10/10] grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository' Brandon Williams
2017-07-18 19:36     ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Convert grep to recurse in-process Junio C Hamano
2017-07-18 20:06       ` Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49     ` [PATCH v4 " Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 01/10] repo_read_index: don't discard the index Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 02/10] repository: have the_repository use the_index Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 03/10] cache.h: add GITMODULES_FILE macro Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 04/10] config: add config_from_gitmodules Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 05/10] submodule: remove submodule.fetchjobs from submodule-config parsing Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 06/10] submodule: remove fetch.recursesubmodules " Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 07/10] submodule: check for unstaged .gitmodules outside of config parsing Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 08/10] submodule: check for unmerged " Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 09/10] submodule: merge repo_read_gitmodules and gitmodules_config Brandon Williams
2017-08-02 19:49       ` [PATCH v4 10/10] grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository' Brandon Williams

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