Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] version: make redact_non_printables() non-static

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 04:16:58PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
> > As we are going to reuse redact_non_printables() outside "version.c",
> > let's make it non-static.
>
> Missing the DCO.

Thanks for spotting this.

> > diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
> > index 7c62e80577..fcc1816685 100644
> > --- a/version.h
> > +++ b/version.h
> > @@ -4,7 +4,15 @@
> >  extern const char git_version_string[];
> >  extern const char git_built_from_commit_string[];
> >
> > +struct strbuf;
> > +
> >  const char *git_user_agent(void);
> >  const char *git_user_agent_sanitized(void);
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Trim and replace each character with ascii code below 32 or above
> > + * 127 (included) using a dot '.' character.
> > +*/
> > +void redact_non_printables(struct strbuf *buf);
>
> Is this header really the right spot though? If I want to redact
> characters I certainly wouldn't be looking at "version.h" for that
> functionality.

In previous versions of this series, I wanted to put this in the
strbuf API but it appeared not to be a good idea.

Anyway, now I think that this patch is not needed, thanks to a comment
you made about the following patch. So we don't need to find a good
place for it for now.