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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Define constants for lengths of object names
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:23:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140501182304.GB9218@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140501172007.GZ9218@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> brian m. carlson wrote:

>> --- a/object.h
>> +++ b/object.h
> [...]
>> @@ -49,7 +56,7 @@ struct object {
>>  	unsigned used : 1;
>>  	unsigned type : TYPE_BITS;
>>  	unsigned flags : FLAG_BITS;
>> -	unsigned char sha1[20];
>> +	unsigned char sha1[GIT_OID_RAWSZ];
>
> Maybe my brain has been damaged by reading code from too many C
> projects that hard-code some constants, but I find '20' easier to read
> here.

That said, RAW_SHA1_BYTES would sound okay to me.

Part of the problem was how long it takes to mentally parse oid_rawsz.

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-01 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-01 11:06 [PATCH] Define constants for lengths of object names brian m. carlson
2014-05-01 17:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-01 18:23   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2014-05-01 23:00   ` brian m. carlson
2014-05-01 23:05     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-02  0:15       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-05-02 22:09         ` brian m. carlson

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