From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>
Cc: Brad King <brad.king@kitware•com>,
Johan Herland <johan@herland•net>, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/27] update_refs(): Fix constness
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:38:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq38hy2dtx.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5339E948.4090109@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:16:40 +0200")
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu> writes:
> On 03/31/2014 11:40 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Since full const correctness is beyond the ability of C's type system,
>>> just put the const where it doesn't do any harm. A (struct ref_update
>>> **) can be passed to a (struct ref_update * const *) argument, but not
>>> to a (const struct ref_update **) argument.
>>
>> Sounds good, but next time please try not to break lines inside a
>> single typename, which is somewhat unreadable ;-)
>>
>> I'd suggest rewording "s/Fix/tighten/". Because a patch that
>> changes constness can loosen constness to make things more correct,
>> "git shortlog" output that says if it is tightening or loosening
>> would be more informative than the one that says that it is "fixing".
>
> It is not a strict tightening, because I add a "const" in one place but
> remove it from another:
>
> const struct ref_update **
>
> becomes
>
> struct ref_update * const *
>
> in the update_refs() signature. In fact, the old declaration was too
> strict for some changes later in the patch series, which is why I needed
> to loosen (one aspect) of it.
Interesting. Then that _is_ a fix. Thanks for explaining it to
me. As always, I would prefer it be explained to the proposed
commit log, not to me over an e-mail ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-31 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-24 17:56 [PATCH v2 00/27] Clean up update-refs --stdin and implement ref_transaction Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/27] t1400: Fix name and expected result of one test Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 21:49 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 02/27] t1400: Provide more usual input to the command Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 03/27] parse_arg(): Really test that argument is properly terminated Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:11 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 04/27] t1400: Add some more tests involving quoted arguments Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 05/27] refs.h: Rename the action_on_err constants Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 06/27] update_refs(): Fix constness Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:16 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 07/27] update-ref --stdin: Read the whole input at once Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 08/27] parse_cmd_verify(): Copy old_sha1 instead of evaluating <oldvalue> twice Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 09/27] update-ref.c: Extract a new function, parse_refname() Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 10/27] update-ref --stdin: Improve error messages for invalid values Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 11/27] update-ref --stdin: Make error messages more consistent Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 12/27] update-ref --stdin: Simplify error messages for missing oldvalues Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 13/27] t1400: Test that stdin -z update treats empty <newvalue> as zeros Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:20 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 14/27] update-ref.c: Extract a new function, parse_next_sha1() Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39 ` Brad King
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 15/27] update-ref --stdin -z: Deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 16/27] t1400: Test one mistake at a time Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39 ` Brad King
2014-03-31 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:32 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 17/27] update-ref --stdin: Improve the error message for unexpected EOF Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 18/27] update-ref --stdin: Harmonize error messages Michael Haggerty
2014-03-31 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 22:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 9:29 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-02 16:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 19/27] refs: Add a concept of a reference transaction Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39 ` Brad King
2014-03-26 21:42 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02 4:57 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 20/27] update-ref --stdin: Reimplement using reference transactions Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02 5:03 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-03 15:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-04 5:02 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 21/27] refs: Remove API function update_refs() Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 22/27] struct ref_update: Rename field "ref_name" to "refname" Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02 5:11 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 23/27] struct ref_update: Store refname as a FLEX_ARRAY Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 24/27] ref_transaction_commit(): Introduce temporary variables Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 19:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 25/27] struct ref_update: Add a lock member Michael Haggerty
2014-03-24 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 26/27] struct ref_update: Add type field Michael Haggerty
2014-04-01 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-02 10:13 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-02 17:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-24 17:57 ` [PATCH v2 27/27] ref_transaction_commit(): Work with transaction->updates in place Michael Haggerty
2014-03-26 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 00/27] Clean up update-refs --stdin and implement ref_transaction Brad King
2014-03-26 21:47 ` Michael Haggerty
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