Re: [PATCH] blame: draft of line format

[Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 08:28:30PM -0600, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote:
>
>> +static void pretty_info(char* revid, struct blame_entry *ent, struct strbuf *rev_buffer)
>> +{
>> +     struct pretty_print_context ctx = {0};
>> +     struct rev_info rev;
>> +
>> +     struct strbuf format = STRBUF_INIT;
>> +     strbuf_addstr(&format, format_line);
>> +     ctx.fmt = CMIT_FMT_USERFORMAT;
>> +     get_commit_format(format.buf, &rev);
>> +     pretty_print_commit(&ctx, ent->suspect->commit, rev_buffer);
>> +     strbuf_release(&format);
>> +}
>
> I think this may be less awkward if you use format_commit_message() as
> the entry point. Then you do not need a rev_info struct at all, it
> touches fewer global variables, etc.
>
> I don't know if that would cause the other difficulties you mentioned,
> though.
>
> -Peff

Thanks for the tip, Peff. It made the code to get rev info much
shorter. I'll work on some other improvements and then I'll send
another patch.

Best regards!