Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] ident: cleanup wrt ident's source

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 11:05:19AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Dan Aloni <alonid@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This change condenses the variables that tells where we got the user's
> > ident into single enum, instead of a collection of booleans.
> >
> > In addtion, also have {committer,author}_ident_sufficiently_given
> > directly probe the environment and the afformentioned enum instead of
> > relying on git_{committer,author}_info to do so.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <alonid@gmail.com>
> > Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> > ---
> >  ident.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> 
> Peff what do you think?  I am asking you because personally I do not
> find this particularly easier to read than the original, but since
> you stared at the code around here recently much longer than I did
> when doing the 1/3, I thought you may be a better judge than I am.

I'm not sure it is really worth it unless we are going to expose this to
the user, and let them say "I am OK with IDENT_SOURCE_GUESSED, but not
IDENT_SOURCE_GUESSED_BOGUS" or similar.

Without that, I think it is probably just making things a bit more
brittle.

-Peff