From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 10:09:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] Add API for string-specific memory pool
Message-ID: <20100530100929.GB6242@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil6dK82ydjjBqKlHEuDMHbgOlVAUXNQZGHZzCYM@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> style nitpick: should use space instead of tab
> 
> Quick doubt: Does running whitespace-cleanup (Emacs) on all the files
> before generating patches suffice?

No idea.  Documentation/CodingStyle in linux-2.6 has some emacs tips.

>> some platforms git supports still don’t have stdint.h iirc.
>
> Oh. What do we do about stdint.h then?

Luckily, the systems without stdint.h have inttypes.h (and vice
versa[1]), so git-compat-util.h takes care of it.

Jonathan

[1] inttypes.h is the older standard, and almost all systems support
it, but Interix has stdint.h but not inttypes.h.  So it goes.