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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland•net>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail•com>,
	"James H. Fisher" <jhf@trifork•com>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 5/9] builtin/notes: Simplify early exit code in add()
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:53:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvbml7mzl.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALKQrgdBhm91tipHRQ3sF_DacSh5nRJmS7eP4S5Z4vB8R8O4_w@mail.gmail.com> (Johan Herland's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:49:58 +0100")

Johan Herland <johan@herland•net> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>> Johan Herland <johan@herland•net> writes:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland•net>
>>> ---
>>>  builtin/notes.c | 12 +++++-------
>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
>>> index 1017472..f1480cf 100644
>>> --- a/builtin/notes.c
>>> +++ b/builtin/notes.c
>>> @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ static int append_edit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix);
>>>
>>>  static int add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>>  {
>>> -     int retval = 0, force = 0;
>>> +     int force = 0;
>>>       const char *object_ref;
>>>       struct notes_tree *t;
>>>       unsigned char object[20], new_note[20];
>>> @@ -441,6 +441,8 @@ static int add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>>
>>>       if (note) {
>>>               if (!force) {
>>> +                     free_note_data(&d);
>>> +                     free_notes(t);
>>>                       if (!d.given) {
>>
>> It looks a bit strange to refer to d.given after calling a function
>> that sounds as if it is meant to clear what is recorded in and to
>> invalidate &d; yes, I can read the implementation to see that
>> d.given keeps its stale value, but that is something other people
>> may want to "clean up" later and this reference to d.given will get
>> in the way when that happens.
>
> Yes, that was obviously an oversight on my part.
>
>> At this point of the code, it makes sense to free t in preparation
>> to either switching to append codepath or erroring out, but does &d
>> have anything in it already to necessitate its freeing?
>
> Actually, no, although verifying that required double-checking that
> each of the -m/-F/-c/-C parsers which store data into &d, do in fact
> set d.given.
>
> I suggest to either move the free_note_data(&d) call below the "if
> (!d.given)" block, or reorganize into this (which at the moment reads
> better to me):
>
>     if (note) {
>         if (!force) {
>             free_notes(t);
>             if (d.given) {
>                 free_note_data(&d);
>                 return error(_("Cannot add notes. "
>                     "Found existing notes for object %s. "
>                     "Use '-f' to overwrite existing notes"),
>                     sha1_to_hex(object));
>             }
>             /*
>              * Redirect to "edit" subcommand.
>              *
>              * We only end up here if none of -m/-F/-c/-C or -f are
>              * given. The original args are therefore still in
>              * argv[0-1].
>              */
>             argv[0] = "edit";
>             return append_edit(argc, argv, prefix);
>         }
>         fprintf(stderr, _("Overwriting existing notes for object %s\n"),
>             sha1_to_hex(object));
>     }
>
> This keeps the two free_* calls close together, only separated by if
> (d.given), which nicely indicates whether we need to call
> free_notes_data(&d) at all.
>
> If that looks good to you, do you want a re-roll, or is it easier to
> fix up yourself?

I strongly prefer reroll for anything bigger than single-line tweaks
to avoid mistakes.

Thans.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-11 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-09 12:30 [PATCHv4 0/9] Handling empty notes Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 1/9] builtin/notes: Fix premature failure when trying to add the empty blob Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 2/9] t3301: Verify that 'git notes' removes empty notes by default Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 3/9] builtin/notes: Improve naming Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 4/9] builtin/notes: Refactor note file path into struct note_data Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 5/9] builtin/notes: Simplify early exit code in add() Johan Herland
2014-11-10 20:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-11  0:49     ` Johan Herland
2014-11-11 15:53       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 6/9] builtin/notes: Split create_note() to clarify add vs. remove logic Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 7/9] builtin/notes: Add --allow-empty, to allow storing empty notes Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 8/9] notes: Empty notes should be shown by 'git log' Johan Herland
2014-11-09 12:30 ` [PATCHv4 9/9] t3301: Modernize Johan Herland
2014-11-10 20:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-11  1:04     ` Johan Herland
2014-11-11  1:07       ` Eric Sunshine
2014-11-11  1:50         ` Johan Herland

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