From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] format-patch: allow --rfc to optionally take a value, like --rfc=WIP
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:41:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440ee2b7-2ed8-4c8b-96e8-623ef45efe42@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy1993tc1.fsf@gitster.g>
Hi Junio
On 19/04/2024 23:01, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> With the "--rfc" option, we can tweak the "[PATCH]" (or whatever
> string specified with the "--subject-prefix" option, instead of
> "PATCH") that we prefix the title of the commit with into "[RFC
> PATCH]", but some projects may want "[rfc PATCH]". Adding a new
> option, e.g., "--rfc-lowercase", to support such need every time
> somebody wants to use different strings would lead to insanity of
> accumulating unbounded number of such options.
>
> Allow an optional value specified for the option, so that users can
> use "--rfc=rfc" (think of "--rfc" without value as a short-hand for
> "--rfc=RFC") if they wanted to.
>
> This can of course be (ab)used to make the prefix "[WIP PATCH]" by
> passing "--rfc=WIP". Passing an empty string, i.e., "--rfc=", is
> the same as "--no-rfc" to override an option given earlier on the
> same command line.
The changes in this version all look good to me, I've left one comment
below.
> @@ -1907,8 +1919,8 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> struct strbuf rdiff2 = STRBUF_INIT;
> struct strbuf rdiff_title = STRBUF_INIT;
> struct strbuf sprefix = STRBUF_INIT;
> + struct strbuf rfc = STRBUF_INIT;
Looking at this again, do we really need an strbuf here? I think we
could we use "const char *" instead as we always store a static string
in it which would avoid a memory leak from not calling strbuf_release().
Best Wishes
Phillip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-21 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-18 22:54 [PATCH] format-patch: allow --rfc to optionally take a value, like --rfc=WIP Junio C Hamano
2024-04-19 0:29 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-19 14:09 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-19 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-21 14:18 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-19 18:00 ` Jeff King
2024-04-19 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-19 22:01 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2024-04-21 15:41 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2024-04-21 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-21 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] format-patch --rfc=WIP Junio C Hamano
2024-04-21 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] format-patch: allow --rfc to optionally take a value, like --rfc=WIP Junio C Hamano
2024-04-21 18:59 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] format-patch: "--rfc=-(WIP)" appends to produce [PATCH (WIP)] Junio C Hamano
2024-04-21 19:37 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-24 10:17 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-24 15:52 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-23 17:52 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] format-patch --rfc=WIP Junio C Hamano
2024-04-23 17:52 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] format-patch: allow --rfc to optionally take a value, like --rfc=WIP Junio C Hamano
2024-04-24 10:16 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-23 17:52 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] format-patch: "--rfc=-(WIP)" appends to produce [PATCH (WIP)] Junio C Hamano
2024-04-24 10:16 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-24 15:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-24 16:34 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-24 15:58 ` Dragan Simic
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