From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] cocci: .buf in a strbuf object can never be NULL
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:22:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5x6oac9t.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260321211828.GB736981@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:18:28 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Could the function be rewritten differently, or maybe even made a little
> simpler? Perhaps, but who cares? The function has been largely untouched
> for a decade and the behavior is fine. And there are a bunch of pitfalls
> that a rewrite risks falling into.
Well, my only interest in this codepath was to get rid of "if
(!sb->buf)" so that I can lift the special case in the Coccinelle
rule. Nothing else.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-22 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 7:15 [PATCH] rerere: update to modern representation of empty strbufs Junio C Hamano
2026-03-19 7:57 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-03-19 22:14 ` [RFC] cocci: .buf in a strbuf object can never be NULL Junio C Hamano
2026-03-19 23:35 ` Jeff King
2026-03-20 1:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-20 4:18 ` Jeff King
2026-03-20 5:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-20 5:57 ` Jeff King
2026-03-20 6:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-20 6:18 ` Jeff King
2026-03-21 13:14 ` René Scharfe
2026-03-21 16:41 ` Jeff King
2026-03-21 20:47 ` René Scharfe
2026-03-21 21:18 ` Jeff King
2026-03-21 23:41 ` René Scharfe
2026-03-22 1:44 ` Jeff King
2026-03-22 1:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-03-22 1:40 ` Jeff King
2026-03-21 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-21 16:39 ` Jeff King
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