From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 12:01:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpmy76w31.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dkgxk9p.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 03 May 2021 11:01:27 +0200")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> Is there any portability reason to avoid "local" in the porcelains? I
> don't have any plans for using it, but I don't see why we'd explicitly
> forbid it.
Things that are not even in POSIX are forbidden unless explicitly
allowed.
In general, he way we encouraged people to think has been "don't use
it, it is not even in POSIX" and "even if it is in POSIX, we know
the support by platform/implementation X is broken, so let's not use
it". It has been successfully helped us to stay out of portability
troubles.
There may be a few tiny cases where we said "practically everybody
we care about has it, even though it is not in POSIX, and it makes
our life so vastly be better" to explicitly allow some feature,
though.
And "local"? Not absolutely essential, unless you are doing a
library that you want to avoid stepping on users' toes. Besides, we
are no longer adding scripted Porcelains left and right---rather,
people are actively rewriting them.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-03 4:10 [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: explicitly allow "local" for test scripts Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03 4:21 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-03 5:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03 5:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2021-05-03 9:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 3:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-05-04 12:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 12:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-04 15:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-04 20:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-04 23:17 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-04 23:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05 0:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 1:58 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-05 3:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 14:16 ` Jeff King
2021-05-05 17:18 ` Felipe Contreras
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