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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Cc: Glen Choo via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] config: return positive from git_config_parse_key()
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:36:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa5vpw7b7.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kl6ltttxz1jj.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com> (Glen Choo's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:12:32 -0700")

Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> writes:

> Oh, interesting. I was trying to follow the conventions of the
> surrounding config.c code and many other parts of the codebase, which
> returns positive values. Why do we choose to return postive values
> throughout the codebase, by the way? Is it because they were really
> intended for exit(3), and not to be used as a library.

If config.c does that, I'd say that was poorly designed oddball.
Looking at read-cache.c (which is older parts of the codebase
written back when the developer base was smaller) may give you a
better examples to follow.  After all, error() returns negative
exactly because we want to follow the usual "negative is an error"
convention.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-21 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-20 22:17 [PATCH 0/2] config-parse: create config parsing library Glen Choo via GitGitGadget
2023-07-20 22:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] config: return positive from git_config_parse_key() Glen Choo via GitGitGadget
2023-07-20 23:44   ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-21  4:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-21 16:12     ` Glen Choo
2023-07-21 16:36       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-07-20 22:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] config-parse: split library out of config.[c|h] Glen Choo via GitGitGadget
2023-07-21  0:31   ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-21 15:55     ` Glen Choo
2023-07-31 23:46 ` [RFC PATCH v1.5 0/5] config-parse: create config parsing library Glen Choo
2023-07-31 23:46   ` [RFC PATCH v1.5 1/5] config: return positive from git_config_parse_key() Glen Choo
2023-07-31 23:46   ` [RFC PATCH v1.5 2/5] config: split out config_parse_options Glen Choo
2023-07-31 23:46   ` [RFC PATCH v1.5 3/5] config: report config parse errors using cb Glen Choo
2023-08-04 21:34     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-07-31 23:46   ` [RFC PATCH v1.5 4/5] config.c: accept config_parse_options in git_config_from_stdin Glen Choo
2023-07-31 23:46   ` [RFC PATCH v1.5 5/5] config-parse: split library out of config.[c|h] Glen Choo
2023-08-23 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] config-parse: create config parsing library Josh Steadmon
2023-08-23 21:53   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] config: split out config_parse_options Josh Steadmon
2023-08-23 23:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-21 21:08       ` Josh Steadmon
2023-08-23 21:53   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] config: report config parse errors using cb Josh Steadmon
2023-08-24  1:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-24 17:31       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-08-24 18:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-21 21:11       ` Josh Steadmon
2023-09-21 23:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-23 21:53   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] config.c: accept config_parse_options in git_config_from_stdin Josh Steadmon
2023-08-23 21:53   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] config-parse: split library out of config.[c|h] Josh Steadmon
2023-08-24 20:10   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] config-parse: create config parsing library Josh Steadmon
2023-09-21 21:17 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] " Josh Steadmon
2023-09-21 21:17   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] config: split out config_parse_options Josh Steadmon
2023-10-23 17:52     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-10-23 18:46       ` Taylor Blau
2023-09-21 21:17   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] config: split do_event() into start and flush operations Josh Steadmon
2023-10-23 18:05     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-09-21 21:17   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] config: report config parse errors using cb Josh Steadmon
2023-10-23 18:41     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-10-23 19:29     ` Taylor Blau
2023-10-23 20:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-21 21:17   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] config.c: accept config_parse_options in git_config_from_stdin Josh Steadmon
2023-10-23 18:52     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-09-21 21:17   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] config-parse: split library out of config.[c|h] Josh Steadmon
2023-10-23 18:53     ` Jonathan Tan
2023-10-17 17:13   ` [PATCH v3 0/5] config-parse: create config parsing library Junio C Hamano
2023-10-23 19:34     ` Taylor Blau
2023-10-23 20:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-24 22:50       ` Jonathan Tan
2023-10-25 19:37         ` Josh Steadmon
2023-10-27 13:04           ` Junio C Hamano

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