From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:05:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Message-ID: <7vk5l42brt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080217081841.GS24004@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> BTW, why does this return const char* from typename(type) instead
> of just returning the enum object_type and letting the caller do
> typename() if they want it?  Most of our other code that returns
> types returns the enum, not the string.  :-\

It just was not converted from the old string interface.  I
thought you are old enough to remember ;-)