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
next prev parent 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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