Re: [PATCH v4 00/21] Peace with CRLF

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 15, 2016, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20160115191051.GA11301@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1452815916-6447-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 03:58:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>  - The update to mktree used "lf_lines" in the preview, but this
>    version flips it to the same "nul_term_line" to match other two,
>    even though I think the latter is a terrible variable name with
>    bad taste.

Heh. I also dislike that variable name, but not want to nit-pick when reading the preview.

I think just "use_nul_terminator" or something would be fine. It is really the "line" which bugs me, because they are not really lines anymore.

-Peff

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.