Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] format-patch: create patch filename in one function
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Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
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- Mar 22, 2009, 05:59 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> The renaming is a good idea even without any change in the feature. > Naming functions after what their result is used _for_ is never a good > idea, and we should name them after what they do. > > Does it still make sense to pass "keep_subject" to the function? After > all what it does is to retain "[PATCH.." prefix that is useless for the > purpose of making each patch easily identifiable. Because people almost > always use patch acceptance tools in non-keep mode to strip the > "[PATCH..]" prefix when creating the commits these days anyway, it may > make more sense to lose the parameter altogether and simplify the > processing.
I originally removed "keep_subject" but I took it out because I couldn't figure out what it was being used for and I thought it might be important. When it's removed all the tests pass. It's not even used by other code besides a few if cases regarding numbering logic so I think the entire command line switch could be removed.
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> > I also wonder if it makes sense to move what this function does into a > user format; especially the logic that sanitizes the oneline string into > filename friendly one may be something Porcelains may want an access to > from outside. > > IOW, you can introduce a new format specifier (say, "%f") to > format_commit_message() and the implemention of get_patch_filename() would > just prepare a strbuf and call format_commit_message() on it, no?
This sounds great! I'm new so I don't know where to look for something like this.