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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] refs.c: enable large transactions
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:37:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8udi2tn8.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYO9NifvWQ7nWHP6==ZFmrMj47-94rEHOhWooR5Nh7EUw@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Beller's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:21:49 -0700")

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>
>>> +             int save_errno = errno;
>>> +             error("Couldn't reopen %s", lock->lk->filename.buf);
>>
>> No need to change this line, but I noticed that we might want to do
>> something about the first one of the following two:
>
> I personally like to have each error(...) to have a unique string, such
> that when you run into trouble (most likely reported by a user),
> you can easily pinpoint where the exact error is.

I was hoping that the "grep" patterns were strong enough hint, but
let me be explicit.  I was commenting on "Could" not being spelled
as "could".

>>     $ git grep -e '[    ]error(_*"[A-Z]' | wc -l
>>     146
>>     $ git grep -e '[    ]error(_*"[a-z]' | wc -l
>>     390

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-24  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-22 21:30 [PATCHv3] refs.c: enable large transactions Stefan Beller
2015-04-23 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-24  0:21   ` Stefan Beller
2015-04-24  1:37     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-04-24 16:16       ` Stefan Beller
2015-04-24 17:19         ` Jeff King
2015-04-24 18:12         ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-04-24 18:31           ` Stefan Beller
2015-04-24 20:17           ` Jeff King
2015-04-25  4:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-25  5:00               ` Jeff King
2015-04-25  5:24                 ` Jeff King

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