From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:14:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/02] ident.c: Use const qualifier when possible Message-ID: <7vslb12y4e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200704152106.51082.andyparkins@gmail.com> Andy Parkins writes: > On Sunday 2007, April 15, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: > >> -static const char *env_hint = >> +static const char const *env_hint = > > You can see then that > > const char const *env_hint > > is redundant, it's simply saying twice that (*env_hint) is const. I think he wanted to say static const char *const env_hint = ...