From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2017, #02; Sun, 15)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:20:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk29tfq79.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170116220014.bwi5xi2br56lyqsw@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:00:14 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> Documentation/CodingGuidelines says:
>
> - We avoid using braces unnecessarily. I.e.
>
> if (bla) {
> x = 1;
> }
>
> is frowned upon. A gray area is when the statement extends
> over a few lines, and/or you have a lengthy comment atop of
> it. Also, like in the Linux kernel, if there is a long list
> of "else if" statements, it can make sense to add braces to
> single line blocks.
>
> I think this is pretty clearly the "gray area" mentioned there. Which
> yes, does not say "definitely do it this way", but I hope makes it clear
> that you're supposed to use judgement about readability.
I always took "gray area" to mean "we do not have strong preference
either way, i.e.
* It is OK for you to write your new code in either style (the
usual "match existing style in surrounding code" applies,
obviously);
* It is not OK for you to churn the codebase with a patch that only
changes existing code to flip between the two styles.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-17 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 1:51 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2017, #02; Sun, 15) Junio C Hamano
2017-01-16 6:56 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-01-16 7:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-16 12:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-16 16:04 ` Jeff King
2017-01-16 17:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-16 20:33 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-01-16 21:44 ` Jeff King
2017-01-17 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-18 6:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-01-18 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-19 16:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-16 22:00 ` Jeff King
2017-01-16 22:08 ` [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: clarify multi-line brace style Jeff King
2017-01-17 19:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-17 20:05 ` Jeff King
2017-01-17 21:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-17 1:33 ` What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2017, #02; Sun, 15) Jacob Keller
2017-01-17 7:52 ` Jeff King
2017-01-17 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-01-17 19:36 ` Jeff King
2017-01-17 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-17 20:51 ` Jeff King
2017-01-16 11:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-17 19:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-18 13:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-16 11:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-18 1:05 ` [PATCHv3 4/4] unpack-trees: support super-prefix option Stefan Beller
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