From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:53:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up compatibility definitions. Message-ID: <20051206095314.GZ10680@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <7vacfe9amx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:17:58AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano said that... > Petr Baudis writes: > > > Dear diary, on Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:22:42PM CET, I got a letter > > where Junio C Hamano said that... > >> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h > >> new file mode 100644 > > > > What about compat/util.h or something? Nicer, shorter, and takes > > advantage of this fancy hierarchical namespace "directories" invention. > > ;-) > > While I would appreciate a better name, I am afraid that is not a > particularly good one. It is not "compatibility utilities", but > compat things and util things mixed together, so it does not > belong to compat/ directory to begin with. die() and friends > are not about compatibility at all. Then perhaps the .h file should be split? At least the "compat-util" name did not suggest combination to me, but specialization (not "compatibility and utils" but "compatibility utils"). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.