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From: "Оля Тележная" <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/20] cat-file: rename variables in ref-filter
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:07:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL21BmnBcYD1ws+2e18o-X4awzFteMkZ0fGYtoJyYdB51JqdzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtvvu3d0a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

2018-01-10 1:04 GMT+03:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Olga Telezhnaya <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Rename some variables for easier reading.
>> They point not to values, but to arrays.
>
> Once the code is written and people start to build on top, a change
> like this is not worth the code churn, especially because there are
> two equally valid schools of naming convention.
>
>  - When you have an array, each of whose 20 slots holds a single
>    dosh, I would prefer to call the array dosh[20], not doshes[20],
>    so that I can refer to the seventh dosh as "dosh[7]".
>
>  - If you more often refer to the array as a whole (than you refer
>    to individual elements) and want to stress the fact that the
>    array holds multiple elements in it, I can understand that you
>    may be tempted to call the whole array "doshes[]".
>
> So please drop this and other "rename variables" patches from the
> series.
>
>

OK, I will revert that. I have done this because it's hard for me to
keep in mind that it's not just a simple pointer to a single value,
and I tried to make the code more intuitive.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09 13:05 [PATCH 01/20] cat-file: split expand_atom into 2 functions Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 09/20] cat-file: get rid of goto in ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 10/20] cat-file: simplify expand_atom function Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 14/20] cat-file: make populate_value global Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 15/20] cat-file: start reusing populate_value Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 08/20] cat-file: remove unused code Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 03/20] cat-file: rename variables in ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 22:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-10  7:07     ` Оля Тележная [this message]
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 02/20] cat-file: reuse struct ref_format Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 12/20] cat-file: rename variable in ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 05/20] cat-file: move struct expand_data into ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 06/20] cat-file: start migrating to ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 20/20] cat-file: make cat_file_info variable independent Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 16/20] cat-file: get rid of expand_atom_into_fields Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 18/20] cat-file: add split_on_whitespace flag Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 11/20] cat-file: get rid of duplicate checking Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 17/20] cat-file: add is_cat flag in ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 07/20] cat-file: reuse parse_ref_filter_atom Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 23:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 04/20] cat-file: make valid_atoms as a function parameter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 22:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 19/20] cat-file: move skip_object_info into ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-09 13:05 ` [PATCH 13/20] cat-file: start use ref_array_item struct Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36 ` [PATCH v2 01/18] cat-file: split expand_atom into 2 functions Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 05/18] cat-file: start migrating to ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 12/18] ref-filter: make populate_value global Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 15/18] ref-filter: add is_cat flag Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 11/18] cat-file: start use ref_array_item struct Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 10/18] cat-file: get rid of duplicate checking Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 07/18] cat-file: remove unused code Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 17/18] cat-file: move skip_object_info into ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 02/18] cat-file: reuse struct ref_format Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-15 21:37     ` Jeff King
2018-01-16  9:45       ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 16/18] ref_format: add split_on_whitespace flag Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 04/18] cat-file: move struct expand_data into ref-filter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-15 21:44     ` Jeff King
2018-01-16  7:00       ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-17 21:45         ` Jeff King
2018-01-18  5:56           ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 06/18] ref-filter: reuse parse_ref_filter_atom Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 18/18] ref-filter: make cat_file_info independent Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 09/18] cat-file: simplify expand_atom function Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 14/18] ref-filter: get rid of expand_atom_into_fields Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 03/18] ref-filter: make valid_atom as function parameter Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-15 21:42     ` Jeff King
2018-01-16  6:55       ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-17 21:43         ` Jeff King
2018-01-17 22:39           ` Christian Couder
2018-01-18  6:20             ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-18 11:49               ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-18 14:23                 ` Christian Couder
2018-01-19 12:24                   ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-19 15:48                     ` Christian Couder
2018-01-19 17:14               ` Christian Couder
2018-01-19 17:22                 ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-19 17:57                   ` Christian Couder
2018-01-19 17:23                 ` Jeff King
2018-01-19 17:31                   ` Christian Couder
2018-01-19 18:47                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-19 20:12                     ` Jeff King
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 08/18] ref-filter: get rid of goto Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-10  9:36   ` [PATCH v2 13/18] cat-file: start reusing populate_value Olga Telezhnaya
2018-01-15 21:33   ` [PATCH v2 01/18] cat-file: split expand_atom into 2 functions Jeff King
2018-01-15 22:09     ` Jeff King
2018-01-16  7:22       ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-17 21:49         ` Jeff King
2018-01-17 23:04           ` Christian Couder
2018-01-18  6:22             ` Оля Тележная
2018-01-18  8:45               ` Christian Couder

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