From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:26:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add a function skip_prefix_if_present()
Message-ID: <20140205172651.GC7268@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <52F1E04D.3090208@alum.mit.edu>

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:55:09AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> * René Scharfe submitted a patch to use a function parse_prefix()
>   (originally suggested by Peff) instead of Duy's suggested approach:
> 
>       http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239569
> 
>   His patch appears to have been overlooked.
> 
> * Duy seemed to offer to rewrite his patch series, but I don't think
>   that it has happened yet.
> 
> And then the conversation was drowned by Christmas eggnog.
> 
> I don't have a strong feeling about (Duy's proposal plus my patches) vs.
> (René's parse_prefix() approach).  But I definitely *do* like the idea
> of getting rid of all those awkward magic numbers everywhere.

FWIW, after coming down off my eggnog bender, I think I still prefer
René's (my?) approach.

-Peff