From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] am: ignore return value of write_file()
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 08:37:35 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607080834340.6426@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160707203157.GA11804@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Hi Peff,
On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Jeff King wrote:
> We have two forms of write_file(): one that dies, and one
> that returns an error. However, the latter has only a single
> caller, which immediately dies anyway (after producing a
> message that is not really any more informative than
> write_file's generic die(), and arguably worse because it
> does not give the actual filename).
This is more an illustration of unnecessarily duplicated code, isn't it?
There are *tons* of instances in Git's code where writing to a file is
implemented separately (and differently).
It would make tons of sense to consolidate all of these instances,
methinks. The diffstat should look *very* pleasing.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-08 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-07 20:02 [PATCH] am: ignore return value of write_file() René Scharfe
2016-07-07 20:31 ` Jeff King
2016-07-08 6:37 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-07-08 6:56 ` Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:04 ` [PATCH 0/8] write_file cleanups Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:06 ` [PATCH 1/8] config: fix bogus fd check when setting up default config Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] am: ignore return value of write_file() Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] branch: use non-gentle write_file for branch description Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:09 ` [PATCH 4/8] write_file: drop "gently" form Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:10 ` [PATCH 5/8] write_file: use xopen Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:12 ` [PATCH 6/8] write_file: add pointer+len variant Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] write_file: add format attribute Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:25 ` Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] walker: let walker_say take arbitrary formats Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] avoid using sha1_to_hex output as printf format Jeff King
2016-07-08 10:35 ` Jeff King
2016-07-08 17:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08 21:41 ` Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:12 ` [PATCH 8/8] use write_file_buf where applicable Jeff King
2016-07-08 9:16 ` [PATCH 9/8] branch: use write_file_buf instead of write_file Jeff King
2016-07-08 18:44 ` [PATCH 0/8] write_file cleanups René Scharfe
2016-07-09 14:24 ` [PATCH] am: ignore return value of write_file() Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-10 10:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-08 6:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-08 18:44 ` René Scharfe
2016-07-08 21:51 ` Jeff King
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