From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 14:53:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH Outreachy 1/2] format: create pretty.h file
Message-ID: <20171210145354.GA20367@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7etx9kzq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:40:09AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I see you've "standardized" to drop "extern" from the declarations
> in the header; I have an impression that our preference however is
> to go in the other direction.

Can we revisit that?

I haven't see any compelling reason to include the "extern" in a
declaration. And all things being equal, I'd prefer the thing that makes
the source code shorter, and is one less thing for authors to remember
to do.

-Peff