Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/22] config: change write_error() to take a (struct lock_file *) argument

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 08:58:33 +0200

On 04/01/2014 05:58 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> Reduce the amount of code that has to know about the lock_file's
> filename field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
> ---
>   config.c | 10 +++++-----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
> index 6821cef..1ea3f39 100644
> --- a/config.c
> +++ b/config.c
> @@ -1303,9 +1303,9 @@ static int store_aux(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> -static int write_error(const char *filename)
> +static int write_error(struct lock_file *lk)
Does the write_error() really need to know about  struct lock_file ?
(The name of the function does not indicate that it is doing something 
with lk)
And if, would it make sense to rename it into 
write_error_and_do_something() ?
>   {
> -	error("failed to write new configuration file %s", filename);
> +	error("failed to write new configuration file %s", lk->filename);
>   
>   	/* Same error code as "failed to rename". */
>   	return 4;
> @@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ out_free:
>   	return ret;
>   
>   write_err_out:
> -	ret = write_error(lock->filename);
> +	ret = write_error(lock);
>   	goto out_free;
>   
>   }
> @@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ int git_config_rename_section_in_file(const char *config_filename,
>   				}
>   				store.baselen = strlen(new_name);
>   				if (!store_write_section(out_fd, new_name)) {
> -					ret = write_error(lock->filename);
> +					ret = write_error(lock);
>   					goto out;
>   				}
>   				/*
> @@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ int git_config_rename_section_in_file(const char *config_filename,
>   			continue;
>   		length = strlen(output);
>   		if (write_in_full(out_fd, output, length) != length) {
> -			ret = write_error(lock->filename);
> +			ret = write_error(lock);
>   			goto out;
>   		}
>   	}