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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	gitster@pobox.com, sahlberg@google.com, git@vger.kernel.org,
	jrnieder@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Breaking the ref-transactions-reflog series in smaller parts
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:03:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546DCA85.8060806@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416433224-29763-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>

On 11/19/2014 10:40 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> so I think the patch series ref-transactions-reflog[1] sent previously to the list
> is still too large for easy review and I want to break it up more.
> So in this series we'll digest only 2 small patches, which do not seem to be 
> controversial (yet;) and seem to be useful no matter how the discussion on
> the other series continues.
> 
> ref_transaction_create as well as ref_transaction_delete are just special cases
> of ref_transaction_update, so let's reduce some redundant code. While this doesn't
> change code in pathes, which are supposed to be run, we do have slight changes 
> in error messages starting with "BUG: ". So in the best case, the user will never
> see these messages at all.

Users should *never* see error messages starting with "BUG: ". These are
basically what the Git project uses instead of assert(). As long as we
Git developers would understand a bug report submitted by a user who
sees such an error message, their text can be changed without worries.

Both patches are

Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

And I love that you are proceeding in smaller pieces.

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-20 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-19 21:40 [PATCH 0/2] Breaking the ref-transactions-reflog series in smaller parts Stefan Beller
2014-11-19 21:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] refs.c: make ref_transaction_create a wrapper for ref_transaction_update Stefan Beller
2014-11-20  1:10   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-20  1:12     ` Stefan Beller
2014-11-20  1:37       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-20 16:00   ` Jeff King
2014-11-20 17:38     ` [PATCH v2 " Stefan Beller
2014-11-20 18:03     ` [PATCH " Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-20 18:18       ` Jeff King
2014-11-19 21:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] refs.c: make ref_transaction_delete " Stefan Beller
2014-11-20  1:11   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-20 17:39     ` [PATCH v2 " Stefan Beller
2014-11-20 18:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-20 11:03 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]

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