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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Ramsay Jones" <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>,
	"git mailing list" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/29] refs: resolve symbolic refs first
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:14:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1461971692.4123.41.camel@twopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57232EAB.3080406@alum.mit.edu>

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 11:51 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> On 04/29/2016 01:40 AM, David Turner wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 18:57 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> > +retry:
> > ...
> > > +		if (--attempts_remaining > 0)
> > > +			goto retry;
> > 
> > could this be a loop instead of using gotos?
> 
> It certainly could. The goto-vs-loop question was debated on the
> mailing
> list when I first added very similar code elsewhere (unfortunately
> I'm
> unable to find a link to that conversation). I was persuaded to
> change
> my loop into gotos, the argument being that the "retry" case is
> exceptional and shouldn't be such a dominant part of the function
> structure. Plus the goto code is briefer and feels less awkward to me
> in
> this case (that's subjective, of course).

It's part of the structure anyway; it's just implicit rather than
explicit. I won't block consensus tho.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 16:57 [PATCH 00/29] Yet more preparation for reference backends Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 01/29] safe_create_leading_directories(): improve docstring Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 02/29] remove_dir_recursively(): add docstring Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 03/29] refname_is_safe(): use skip_prefix() Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 04/29] refname_is_safe(): don't allow the empty string Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 05/29] refname_is_safe(): insist that the refname already be normalized Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 17:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 20:10     ` David Turner
2016-04-27 20:15       ` Jeff King
2016-04-27 20:34         ` David Turner
2016-04-27 20:37           ` Jeff King
2016-04-27 22:19             ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 17:44             ` David Turner
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 06/29] commit_ref_update(): write error message to *err, not stderr Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 07/29] rename_ref(): remove unneeded local variable Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 08/29] ref_transaction_commit(): remove local variable n Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 18:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 20:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 09/29] read_raw_ref(): rename flags argument to type Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 10/29] read_raw_ref(): clear *type at start of function Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 11/29] read_raw_ref(): rename symref argument to referent Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 12/29] read_raw_ref(): improve docstring Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 18:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 13/29] lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remove unneeded local variable Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 14/29] refs: make error messages more consistent Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 15/29] ref_transaction_create(): disallow recursive pruning Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 20:23     ` David Turner
2016-04-27 20:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 21:15         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-28 17:48           ` David Turner
2016-04-28 20:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29  6:56           ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-29  8:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29  8:41             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29 14:29               ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 16/29] ref_transaction_commit(): correctly report close_ref() failure Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 17/29] delete_branches(): use resolve_refdup() Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 18/29] refs: allow log-only updates Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 19/29] refs: don't dereference on rename Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 18:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29  7:38     ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-29  8:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29 10:57         ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-29 12:12           ` Jeff King
2016-04-29 13:55             ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-29 14:08               ` Jeff King
2016-04-29 15:29               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29 23:21       ` David Turner
2016-04-30  3:48         ` Michael Haggerty
2016-05-02 17:55           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 20/29] verify_refname_available(): adjust constness in declaration Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 21/29] add_update(): initialize the whole ref_update Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 22/29] lock_ref_for_update(): new function Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 23/29] unlock_ref(): move definition higher in the file Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 24/29] ref_transaction_update(): check refname_is_safe() at a minimum Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 20:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29  7:42     ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-29  8:53       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 25/29] refs: resolve symbolic refs first Michael Haggerty
2016-04-28 23:40   ` David Turner
2016-04-29  9:51     ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-29 23:14       ` David Turner [this message]
2016-05-02 18:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 26/29] lock_ref_for_update(): don't re-read non-symbolic references Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 27/29] lock_ref_for_update(): don't resolve symrefs Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 28/29] commit_ref_update(): remove the flags parameter Michael Haggerty
2016-04-27 16:57 ` [PATCH 29/29] lock_ref_sha1_basic(): only handle REF_NODEREF mode Michael Haggerty
2016-04-29 15:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-29  1:14 ` [PATCH 00/29] Yet more preparation for reference backends David Turner

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