From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] completion: Change "if [...]" to "if test ..." to match git convention
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:14:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vljscgak4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4992FE78.6000206@tedpavlic.com> (Ted Pavlic's message of "Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:36:08 -0500")
Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com> writes:
>> NAK.
>>
>> This script only runs in bash. bash supports [...]. The
>> prevailing convention in the script is to use [...]. Only
>> 4 tests inside of __git_ps1 use "test", the rest of the code
>> is using [...].
>
> So this trumps Documentation/CodingGuidelines, which says:
>
> - We prefer "test" over "[ ... ]".
>
> ?
No, this paragraph from Documentation/CodingGuidelines trumps you.
As for more concrete guidelines, just imitate the existing code
(this is a good guideline, no matter which project you are
contributing to). It is always preferable to match the _local_
convention. New code added to git suite is expected to match
the overall style of existing code. Modifications to existing
code is expected to match the style the surrounding code already
uses (even if it doesn't match the overall style of existing code).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 15:37 [PATCH 0/3] completion: Convention updates and DIRTYSTATE fix Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] completion: For consistency, changed "git rev-parse" to __gitdir calls Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] completion: Change "if [...]" to "if test ..." to match git convention Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] completion: Prevents GIT_PS1_DIRTYSTATE from breaking when CWD is .git Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 16:18 ` [PATCH 4/3] completion: More fixes to prevent unbound variable errors Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 16:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-11 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] completion: Prevents GIT_PS1_DIRTYSTATE from breaking when CWD is .git Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-11 16:53 ` Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-11 17:20 ` Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 18:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-11 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] completion: Change "if [...]" to "if test ..." to match git convention Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-11 16:36 ` Ted Pavlic
2009-02-11 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-11 16:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-11 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] completion: For consistency, changed "git rev-parse" to __gitdir calls Shawn O. Pearce
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