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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config.c: change the function signature of `git_config_string()`
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:42:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqegxccvq9.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk375gx1n.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:47:48 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> *1* We have safe_create_leading_directories_const() that works
> around this for input parameter around its _const less counterpart,
> which is ugly but livable solution.

I think it would actually be a reasonable solution to avoid casting here
and there on the caller side.

Another option would be to _return_ a non-const char * instead of
outputing it as a by-address parameter. We'd lose the consiseness of

   return git_config_get_string(...)

(but in cases where the return value is ignored, we do not really care)

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-23  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-22 10:49 [PATCH] config.c: change the function signature of `git_config_string()` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-22 11:07 ` Jeff King
2014-07-22 11:41   ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-22 11:44   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-22 11:48     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-07-22 15:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-22 16:03       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-07-22 16:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-23  8:42     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-07-23 17:25       ` Junio C Hamano

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