From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Shrink "struct object" a bit Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <44942176.1070107@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 17 21:14:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrgFA-0007B0-1O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:14:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750864AbWFQTNz (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:13:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750868AbWFQTNz (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:13:55 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:15002 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750860AbWFQTNz (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:13:55 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5HJDngt018118 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:13:49 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k5HJDmDS028094; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:13:48 -0700 To: Philip Pokorny In-Reply-To: <44942176.1070107@mindspring.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.76__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.135 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Philip Pokorny wrote: > > A minor thing, but doesn't this mean the "report_missing" message would change > from: > > > Cannot obtain needed object ab12cdef1234567890abcd > > while processing commit fedcbadeadbeefdeadbe > > to > > > Cannot obtain needed none ab12cdef1234567890abcd > > while processing commit fedcbadeadbeefdeadbe Yeah. I guess you could either just keep the old conditional, or just change the object type-name for the unspecified mode 0 to something like "untyped object" which would cause a much more readable errors. Linus