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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Kent R. Spillner" <kspillner@acm.org>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Johannes Sixt" <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add a function skip_prefix_if_present()
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:26:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140205172651.GC7268@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F1E04D.3090208@alum.mit.edu>

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:55:09AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> * René Scharfe submitted a patch to use a function parse_prefix()
>   (originally suggested by Peff) instead of Duy's suggested approach:
> 
>       http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239569
> 
>   His patch appears to have been overlooked.
> 
> * Duy seemed to offer to rewrite his patch series, but I don't think
>   that it has happened yet.
> 
> And then the conversation was drowned by Christmas eggnog.
> 
> I don't have a strong feeling about (Duy's proposal plus my patches) vs.
> (René's parse_prefix() approach).  But I definitely *do* like the idea
> of getting rid of all those awkward magic numbers everywhere.

FWIW, after coming down off my eggnog bender, I think I still prefer
René's (my?) approach.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-05  6:25 [PATCH 0/3] Add a function skip_prefix_if_present() Michael Haggerty
2014-02-05  6:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add and use " Michael Haggerty
2014-02-05  6:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] diff_scoreopt_parse(): use skip_prefix_if_present() Michael Haggerty
2014-02-05  6:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] rev_is_head(): use skip_prefix() Michael Haggerty
2014-02-05  6:55 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add a function skip_prefix_if_present() Michael Haggerty
2014-02-05 17:26   ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-02-06 12:19   ` Duy Nguyen

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