Subject: Re: [PATCH] Define constants for lengths of object names

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 10:20:07 -0700

Hi,

brian m. carlson wrote:

> --- a/object.h
> +++ b/object.h
[...]
> @@ -49,7 +56,7 @@ struct object {
>  	unsigned used : 1;
>  	unsigned type : TYPE_BITS;
>  	unsigned flags : FLAG_BITS;
> -	unsigned char sha1[20];
> +	unsigned char sha1[GIT_OID_RAWSZ];

Maybe my brain has been damaged by reading code from too many C
projects that hard-code some constants, but I find '20' easier to read
here.

What happened to the

	struct object_id {
		unsigned char id[20];
	};

	...

	struct object {
		...
		struct object_id id;
	};

idea?

Thanks,
Jonathan