Re: [PATCH] Refactor recv_sideband()

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Nico,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Improve the readability of recv_sideband() significantly by
> > > > replacing fragile buffer manipulations with more sophisticated
> > > > format strings.  Also, reorganize the overall control flow, remove
> > > > some superfluous variables and replace a custom implementation of
> > > > strpbrk() with a call to the standard C library function.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de>
> > > 
> > > The previous code was a total abomination, even if I happen to know
> > > who wrote it.
> > 
> > Let's give Junio a break, okay? He does a kick-ass job at maintaining
> > Git.  What we see here is simply good software development, nothing
> > more, nothing less: an initial, working code being improved. No need
> > to make the original author feel bad... :-)
> 
> In case my sarcasm wasn't clear, _I_ am the author of the alluded
> abomination.

Sorry, I did not catch that. I just looked at
583b7ea31b7c16f872b178d541591ab816d16f85 and felt that we could be nicer
to Junio...

Ciao,
Johannes