From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:05:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] mingw: make failures to unlink or move raise a question
Message-ID: <7v1v5jrb1f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1012150109340.1461@bonsai2>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > @@ -129,6 +130,78 @@ static inline int is_file_in_use_error(DWORD errcode)
>> >        return 0;
>> >  }
>> >
>> > +static int read_yes_no_answer()
>> 
>> Perhaps "static int read_yes_no_answer(void)" for portability?
>
> LOL. This file is called compat/mingw.c... :-)

I had the same reaction.  Maybe MinGW will get a different compiler
someday ;-)

> But I have no objection to stay with the convention of the rest of Git. 
> Nobody needs to convince me that consistency is good.

I recall there are a few old-style declaration in compat/ directory,
especially in borrowed code like nedmalloc/ and possibly regex/, and
I am not so sure if we want to touch them.

I'll leave this up to msysgit folks.

Thanks.