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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>,
	Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] submodule--helper: move config-sanitizing to submodule.c
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:37:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160428153751.GE31063@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbJvgseY6aBV6vh0aEFNmHDtSvQuM8xHvp7_pYZSXCq+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:30:45AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> > +/*
> > + * This function is intended as a callback for use with
> > + * git_config_from_parameters(). It ignores any config options which
> > + * are not suitable for passing along to a submodule, and accumulates the rest
> > + * in "data", which must be a pointer to a strbuf.
> 
> So why is it a void* then? You could make it a strbuf* here, so you
> would not have to document it?
> Oh right, because of git_config_from_parameters(sanitize_submodule_config, ...

Exactly (and why it is all the more important do document it!).

> > The end result can
> > + * be put into $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS for passing to a sub-process.
> 
> s/sub-process/process operating on submodules/, maybe ?
> 
> While it is technically a sub-process, I started to have an aversion
> against "sub"-things
> unless strictly required. :)

Technically it can be any process which then spawns a process operating
on a submodule. Maybe "another process" would be enough?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-25 10:39 [RFC] How to pass Git config command line instructions to Submodule commands? Lars Schneider
2016-04-25 17:02 ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-25 20:59   ` Jacob Keller
2016-04-25 21:24     ` Jeff King
2016-04-25 21:27       ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 11:06       ` Lars Schneider
2016-04-28 11:25         ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 12:05           ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 12:17             ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 13:35               ` [PATCH 0/5] fixes for sanitized submodule config Jeff King
2016-04-28 13:36                 ` [PATCH 1/5] t5550: fix typo in $HTTPD_URL Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:24                   ` Jacob Keller
2016-04-28 15:25                     ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:26                       ` Jacob Keller
2016-04-28 13:37                 ` [PATCH 2/5] t5550: break submodule config test into multiple sub-tests Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:21                   ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-28 15:25                     ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:25                     ` Jacob Keller
2016-04-28 13:37                 ` [PATCH 3/5] submodule: export sanitized GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:25                   ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-28 15:28                     ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:35                       ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-28 16:51                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-04-28 15:28                   ` Jacob Keller
2016-04-28 15:36                     ` Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:40                       ` Jacob Keller
2016-04-28 13:38                 ` [PATCH 4/5] submodule--helper: move config-sanitizing to submodule.c Jeff King
2016-04-28 15:30                   ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-28 15:37                     ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-04-28 16:28                   ` Lars Schneider
2016-04-28 13:39                 ` [PATCH 5/5] submodule: use prepare_submodule_repo_env consistently Jeff King
2016-04-28 14:02                 ` [PATCH 0/5] fixes for sanitized submodule config Johannes Schindelin
2016-04-28 15:56                   ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-28 16:03                     ` Jacob Keller
2016-04-28 12:05           ` [RFC] How to pass Git config command line instructions to Submodule commands? Lars Schneider
2016-04-28 13:40             ` Jeff King

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