Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu support

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:33:49 -0500

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:17:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Would "length() > 1" be enough[1]? Or are people really typing "yes" and
> > not just "y"?
> >
> > I cannot imagine a charset name that is smaller than two characters. It
> > may be that there are none smaller than 4, and we could cut it off
> > there. Googling around for some lists of common charsets, it seems like
> > that might be plausible (but not any larger; "big5" is 4 characters, and
> > people may spell "utf8" without the hyphen).
> >
> > -Peff
> >
> > [1] Of course, to match the existing regex code, we may want to spell
> >     this as "/../" or "/..../".
> 
> Perhaps. Just in case there were shorter ones, something like this
> with confirm_only to allow them to say "Yes, I do mean 'xx'"?
> 
>  git-send-email.perl | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 3092ab3..848f176 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ sub file_declares_8bit_cte {
>  		print "    $f\n";
>  	}
>  	$auto_8bit_encoding = ask("Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]? ",
> +				  valid_re => qr/.{4}/, confirm_only => 1,
>  				  default => "UTF-8");
>  }

Yes, I think leaving an escape hatch is a good idea, just in case.

-Peff