Re: [PATCH RESEND] Fix a bunch of pointer declarations (codestyle)

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> Sorry, but I cannot take this as is.
>>>
>>> These trivial clean-ups are welcome either as part of a preparatory
>>> clean-up before starting to work in the area of code you are touching, or
>>> as a standalone patch to files that nobody is currently working on.
>>>
>>> There is a huge overlap between "git diff --name-only master..pu" and the
>>> above list, so it is impossible for me to take the patch and I cannot
>>> afford the time to sift through gems out of stones.
>>
>>  It's understandable. Would there be a better time to send this patch?
>> After 1.6.2, or in a different form?
>
> I've taken your smaller patches that touched only parts that nobody is
> touching between 'master' and 'pu'.  Please take that as a hint ;-)

Sorry, where is the result of that? I can't find it.

> As a first order approximation, come up with the subset of your patch that
> applies cleanly to 'master', and make sure that the same patch applies
> cleanly to 'pu'.  Remove patches to paths that have any hunk that does not
> apply and go back to 'master' to repeat the exercise.
>
> That will cover a lot of existing breakages in files that nobody else is
> working on.
>
> For example, Jay has been hyperactive around anything "remote" for the
> past several days.  If you have clean-ups in the paths he touches in his
> series (still in flight), you may want to coordinate with him so that he
> can include your patches in the early part of his series.  Or you wait
> until his series starts to settle down (meaning, merged to 'next').  This
> applies to anybody else's topic.

I tried to rebase the patch on top master, generated a patch and it
applies cleanly on top of both 'master' and 'pu' I didn't need to
change anything.

What am I missing?

-- 
Felipe Contreras