From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:45:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] new git check-ignore sub-command
Message-ID: <7v627pzsr7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAOkDyE8mEQ5XkH5TBsrVkAZOqoT+DVoggeGawH=cqU6E6=hv=g@mail.gmail.com>

Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>  * avoid unnnecessary braces {} around single statement blocks, e.g.
>>
>>     -if (exclude) {
>>     +if (exclude)
>>         return exclude;
>>     -}
>>
>>  * else should follow close brace '}' of if clause, e.g.
>>
>>      if (...) {
>>          ...
>>     -}
>>     -else {
>>     +} else {
>>          ...
>
> What about when the if clause requires braces but the else clause
> doesn't?  Should it be
>
> 	if (...) {
> 		...;
> 		...;
> 	} else
> 		...;
>
> or
>
> 	if (...) {
> 		...;
> 		...;
> 	}
> 	else
> 		...;
>
> ?

Neither.  We try to do (but often fail ;-)

	if (...) {
        	...;
        	...;
	} else {
        	...;
	}

following the kernel style, unless there is good reason not to.