From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Olga Telezhnaya <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:32:35 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1909262132090.15067@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190926094723.GE2637@szeder.dev>
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Hi,
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 08:07:09PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> > Here is one more idea for microprojects:
> >
> > Find a group of related preprocessor constants and turn them into an
> > enum. Also find where those constants are stored in variables and
> > in structs and passed around as function parameters, and change the
> > type of those variables, fields and parameters to the new enum.
>
> Peff thought elsewhere in the thread that this is a good idea, so I
> wanted to try out how this microproject would work in practice, and to
> add a commit that we can show as a good example, and therefore set out
> to convert 'cache_entry->ce_flags' to an enum... and will soon send
> out a RFH patch, because I hit a snag, and am not sure what to do
> about it :) Anyway:
>
> - Finding a group of related preprocessor constants is trivial: the
> common prefixes and vertically aligned values of related constants
> stand out in output of 'git grep #define'. Converting them to an
> enum is fairly trivial as well.
>
> - Converting various integer types of variables, struct fields, and
> function parameters to the new enum is... well, I wouldn't say
> that it's hard, but it's tedious (but 'ce_flags' with about 20
> related constants is perhaps the biggest we have). OTOH, it's all
> fairly mechanical, and doesn't require any understanding of Git
> internals. Overall I think that this is indeed a micro-sized
> microproject, but...
>
> - The bad news is that I expect that reviewing the variable, etc.
> type conversions will be just as tedious, and it's quite easy to
> miss a conversion or three, so I'm afraid that several rerolls
> will be necessary.
I thought Coccinelle could help with that?
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 5:17 Git in Outreachy December 2019? Jeff King
2019-08-31 7:58 ` Christian Couder
2019-08-31 19:44 ` Olga Telezhnaya
2019-09-04 19:41 ` Jeff King
2019-09-05 7:24 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-05 19:39 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-06 11:55 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:39 ` Jeff King
2019-09-07 10:13 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:36 ` Jeff King
2019-09-08 14:56 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-09 17:00 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 9:47 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:32 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2019-09-26 21:54 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-13 20:03 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-13 20:51 ` Jeff King
2019-09-16 18:42 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-16 21:33 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-16 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-16 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-09-17 0:59 ` Jeff King
2019-09-17 11:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 12:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-23 12:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 16:58 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 13:28 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-27 22:18 ` Jeff King
2019-10-09 17:25 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-10-11 6:34 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:19 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 15:10 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 12:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 19:30 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-24 15:33 ` Jeff King
2019-09-28 3:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-24 0:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-26 12:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-30 8:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-28 4:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-20 17:04 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-21 1:47 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 14:23 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 19:40 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 22:29 ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-22 21:16 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 11:49 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 17:58 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:27 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:48 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:15 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:38 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 21:28 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 17:07 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-26 7:09 ` Jeff King
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