From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:14:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH (RESEND) 3/3] Fix DirCache.findEntry to work on an empty cache
Message-ID: <200909040114.12980.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <1251847010-9992-3-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org>

onsdag 02 september 2009 01:16:50 skrev "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>:
> If the cache has no entries, we want to return -1 rather than throw
> ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.  This binary search loop was stolen
> from some other code which contained a test before the loop to see if
> the collection was empty or not, but we failed to include that here.
> 
> Flipping the loop around to a standard while loop ensures we test
> the condition properly first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Is this a new policy?

-- robin