From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:20:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] revert: Persist data for continuation
Message-ID: <7vsjqjjebq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110706100119.GG15682@elie>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>  /*
>   * Example:
>   *
>   *	struct commit_list *list;
>   *	struct commit_list **next = &list;
>   *
>   *	next = commit_list_append(c1, next);
>   *	next = commit_list_append(c2, next);
>   *	*next = NULL;
>   *	assert(commit_list_count(list) == 2);
>   *	return list;
>   *
>   * Don't forget to NULL-terminate!
>   */

I wonder if the optimization to allow omitting unnecessary NULL
termination inside a tight loop by the caller is really worth the
potential trouble, though.