From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:43:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] fast-import: use pointer-to-pointer to keep list tail
Message-ID: <20130321204355.GK29311@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130321110817.GB18819@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> This is shorter, idiomatic, and it means the compiler does
> not get confused about whether our "e" pointer is valid,
> letting us drop the "e = e" hack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> And it fixes an instance of Linus's "people do not understand pointers"

Heh.  Yes, looks correct.  For what it's worth,
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>