Re: [PATCH 1/2] builtin/merge-file: fix compiler error on MacOS with clang 11.0.0

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

>> Shouldn't we rather silence it with -Wno-missing-braces?
>
> That was indeed Ævar's suggestion in [1]:
>
>     Since this is only a warning, and only a practical issue with
>     -Werror I wonder if a config.mak.dev change wouldn't be better,
>     i.e. to provide a -Wno-missing-braces for this older clang
>     version.
>
> The problem is that Apple seems to invent their version numbers out of
> thin air with no relation to reality[2,3], so it may take some effort
> to work out suitable "version mapping rules" for config.mak.dev, and
> nobody has done it yet.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/220712.86lesy6cri.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Ys0hhYjPExuNWynE@coredump.intra.peff.net/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/YQ2LdvwEnZN9LUQn@coredump.intra.peff.net/

I agree that telling affected users to squelch the warning is a good
first step, and automating it, if there is an easy implementation to
do so, would be a good thing to have on top.

Thanks for digging up the thread.