From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 08:23:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: ensure correct permissions of the commit message
Message-ID: <20160106082341.GB19117@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601060916400.2964@virtualbox>

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:20:34AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi Junio,
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > If we want to follow the X_or_Y() pattern, fopen_or_create() may
> > describe what it does better.  I do not have strong preference either
> > way, but again I am not good at naming things (and I suspect you aren't
> > either), so...
> 
> Heh... You got that right...
> 
> Let's let it simmer for a couple more days, maybe somebody else chimes in
> with a brilliant idea... :-)

I can be the anti-brilliant and just shoot down what has been said. :)

I think fopen_or_create is confusing; it implies to me that we'll open
an existing file or create it if it's not there. But we are always about
truncating/replacing the existing file.

I think fopen_for_writing() is fine, or fopen_truncate().

-Peff