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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: pclouds@gmail.com, ao2@ao2.it, bmwill@google.com,
	git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Why do we have both x*() and *_or_die() for "do or die"?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 19:49:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874liz8tsi.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180516222118.233868-3-sbeller@google.com>


On Wed, May 16 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:

> A common pattern with the repo_read_index function is to die if the return
> of repo_read_index is negative.  Move this pattern into a function.

Just a side-question unrelated to this patch per-se, why do we have both
x*() and *_or_die() functions in the codebase? I can't find any pattern
for one or the other, e.g. we have both xopen() and then write_or_die(),
so it's not a matter of x*() just being for syscalls and *_or_die()
being for our own functions (also as e.g. strbuf uses x*(), not
*_or_die()).

I'm not trying to litigate the difference and understand it could have
just emerged organically. I'm just wondering if that's the full story or
if one is preferred, or we prefer one or the other in some
circumstances.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-22 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-15  1:04 [PATCH] grep: handle corrupt index files early Stefan Beller
2018-05-15 12:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-05-15 13:13 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-15 16:44   ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 15:24     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-16 22:21       ` [PATCH 00/11] Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 01/11] grep: handle corrupt index files early Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 02/11] repository: introduce repo_read_index_or_die Stefan Beller
2018-05-19  6:37           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-21 18:38             ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-21 18:50               ` Brandon Williams
2018-05-21 19:27                 ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-22 15:13                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-22 17:49           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-05-22 17:55             ` Why do we have both x*() and *_or_die() for "do or die"? Duy Nguyen
2018-05-22 18:38               ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-05-22 18:04             ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-23  3:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 03/11] builtin/grep: use repo_read_index_or_die Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 04/11] submodule: " Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 05/11] builtin/ls-files: " Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 06/11] read_cache: use repo_read_index_or_die with different error messages Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 07/11] rerere: use repo_read_index_or_die Stefan Beller
2018-05-20 17:45           ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-05-21 18:46             ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 08/11] check-attr: switch to repo_read_index_or_die Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 09/11] checkout-index: switch to repo_read_index Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 10/11] test helpers: switch to repo_read_index_or_die Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:21         ` [PATCH 11/11] read_cache: convert most calls " Stefan Beller
2018-05-16 22:27           ` Brandon Williams
2018-05-19  6:55             ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-19  6:54           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-19  6:57         ` [PATCH 00/11] Duy Nguyen
2018-05-17  1:36       ` [PATCH] grep: handle corrupt index files early Junio C Hamano
2018-05-17 17:21         ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 22:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-15 17:01 ` Brandon Williams
2018-05-15 23:58 ` Junio C Hamano

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