Re: [PATCH v2] ref-filter.c: pass empty-string as NULL to atom parsers

> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The above does a nice job of explaining
> >
> >  - what this change is going to do
> >  - how it's good for the internal code structure / maintainability
> >
> > What it doesn't tell me about is why the user-facing effect won't
> > cause problems.  Is there no atom where %(atom:) was previously
> > accepted and did something meaningful that this may break?
>
> That is, was there any situation where %(atom) and %(atom:) did two
> differnt things and their differences made sense?
>
> > Looking at the manpage and code, I don't see any, so for what it's
> > worth, this is
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> >
> > but for next time, please remember to discuss regression risk in
> > the commit message, too.
>
> Yes, I agree that it is necessary to make sure somebody looked at
> the issue _and_ record the fact that it happened.  Thanks for doing
> that already ;-)
>
> I also took a look at the code and currently we seem to abort,
> either with "unrecognised arg" (e.g. "refname:") or "does not take
> args" (e.g. "body"), so we should be OK, I'd think.