From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: t5505-remote fails on Windows
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:03:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090319050328.GA9746@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718490903182156y3b2b9d8aw708829a6ed151aa@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:56:37AM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:
> > As a side note, I find this solution a little bit ugly. String lists
> > should sort on their strings, not on some other random magic in the util
> > field. This usage really abuses string_list a bit as a data type because
> > we have no generic "list" type.
>
> I really don't think so. The string_list API accommodates this case
> quite nicely. So why not?
I think the code would be more natural as a list of structs, each with a
source and dest. But C does not make it pleasant to write generic data
types, so things end up stuffed into string_lists with a magic util
field. So I think leaving it as a string_list is probably the most sane
thing to do.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-19 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-18 11:42 t5505-remote fails on Windows Johannes Sixt
2009-03-19 4:18 ` Jeff King
2009-03-19 4:43 ` Jeff King
2009-03-19 4:56 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-19 5:03 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-03-19 7:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-03-19 20:04 ` Jeff King
2009-03-19 10:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-19 11:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-19 15:00 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-19 20:03 ` Jeff King
2009-03-19 23:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-22 8:59 ` [PATCH] remote: improve sorting of "configure for git push" list Jeff King
2009-03-22 14:47 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-22 21:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-23 7:56 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-03-23 8:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-19 19:52 ` t5505-remote fails on Windows Jeff King
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