From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] quote: let caller reset buffer for quote_path_relative()
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:04:05 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CTGpDW46-37oX14+JxLxWmoz2f4mawr4QPkqCSunF7dQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd30qav4m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> This sounds a lot stronger than "let" to me. All existing callers
> that assumed that buf to be emptied by the function now has to clear
> it. "quote: stop resetting output buffer of quote_path_relative()"
> may better describe what this really does.
>
> How should this interact with the logic in the called function that
> used to say "if we ended up returning an empty string because the
> path is the same as the base, we should give ./ back", and what
> should the return value of this function be?
> ...
> So what does it mean to have an existing string in the output buffer
> when calling the function? Is it supposed to be a path to a
> directory, or just a general uninterpreted string (e.g. a message)?
I prefer the KISS principle in this case: do not interpret existing string.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-11 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-09 9:03 'git grep needle rev' attempts to access 'rev:.../.gitattributes' in the worktree Johannes Sixt
2012-10-09 9:38 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-09 12:01 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-09 12:41 ` Jeff King
2012-10-09 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-10 5:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 5:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-10 5:45 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 11:34 ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 11:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] quote: let caller reset buffer for quote_path_relative() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 13:04 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2012-10-11 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-10 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] grep: pass true path name to grep machinery Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 11:51 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 12:03 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 12:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 12:32 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 12:43 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 12:51 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 5:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-11 7:04 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-10-11 8:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-10 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Re: 'git grep needle rev' attempts to access 'rev:.../.gitattributes' in the worktree Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] quote: let caller reset buffer for quote_path_relative() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-10 14:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-10 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 5:45 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-11 15:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-12 7:33 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-14 4:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-15 6:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-15 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-16 6:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-17 7:05 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-10-17 7:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-11 1:49 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-10-11 3:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-12 10:49 ` [PATCH v3] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-10-12 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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