Re: [PATCH 2/3] rev-list: Introduce --no-output to avoid /dev/null redirects

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 9, 2007, 09:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20071109091219.GQ14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl3fvlrb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> > Junio C Hamano, Fri, Nov 09, 2007 08:32:01 +0100:
> >> 
> >> The function names noshow_xxx() looked a bit funny, but I do not
> >> offhand have better alternatives to offer.
> >
> > "hide", "skip", "ignore"?
> 
> But look at what the functions do.  The original show_xxx() was
> to print and then process.  Shawn splitted them into show_xxx()
> and noshow_xxx(), leaft the printing part in the former, made
> the former call the latter at the end, and moved the processing
> to the latter.  So it is not any of the three words.

In my latest patch series I've gone with "finish_xxx()" as it is finishing our usage of that object. I'll be resubmitting a new series soon.

-- 
Shawn.