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From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation/user-manual.txt: example for generating object hashes
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:11:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gho7bo1ihf.fsf@gouders.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqil1wiw5l.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:24:38 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders•net> writes:
>
>> May I ask what you meant by "modulo coding style", e.g. where I should
>> look at to make the code of similar style?
>
> Documentation/CodingGuidelines would be a good start, but
>
>  * A here-doc for a single liner is probably an overkill.  Why not
>
>     echo "Hello, world" >file
>
>    In either way, in our codebase a redirection operator '>' (or
>    '<') has one whitespace before it, and no whitespace after it
>    before the file.
>
>  * printf piped to "cat - file" whose output feeds another pipe
>    looked unusual.  More usual way novices write may be
>
>     { printf ... ; cat file; } | sha1sum
>
> were the two things I noticed.
>
>> I would also add that git-hash-object(1) could be used to verify the
>> result if you think that is OK.
>
> git hash-object can be used to replace that whole thing ;-)
>
>> In addition to a suggestion in another mail, the commit would
>> consist of substantial content you suggested and perhaps, you could tell
>> me how to express this; would a Helped-By be correct?
>
> I think many may prefer to downcase B in By, but if it is
> "substantial", probably.  I do not think I gave much in this
> discussion to become a substantial addition to the original, though.

Thank you for the explanation (some of which I should have found by
myself).

I will send the prepared v2 when I solved my struggling with range-diffs;
that concept is new to me and I have a slow brain -- if one at all.

Dirk

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-08 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-29 20:57 [PATCH 0/1] Documentation/user-manual.txt: try to clarify on object hashes Dirk Gouders
2024-02-29 13:05 ` [PATCH 1/1] Documentation/user-manual.txt: example for generating " Dirk Gouders
2024-02-29 21:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-29 22:35     ` Dirk Gouders
2024-02-29 22:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-08  6:45     ` Dirk Gouders
2024-03-08 15:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-08 22:11         ` Dirk Gouders [this message]
2024-03-12 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Documentation/user-manual.txt: try to clarify on " Dirk Gouders
2024-03-12 10:41   ` [PATCH v2 1/1] Documentation/user-manual.txt: example for generating " Dirk Gouders

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