From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:31:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] Alternates API: Improve naming
Message-ID: <7vwrjgkzps.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <a0e5204fe8c03b3b6af2150198bad51f86b126c4.1301521243.git.mfwitten@gmail.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
> index e55a496..a6c1f1f 100644
> --- a/sha1_file.c
> +++ b/sha1_file.c
> @@ -390,11 +390,11 @@ void add_to_alternates_file(const char *reference)
>  
>  void foreach_alt_odb(alt_odb_fn fn)
>  {
> -	struct alternate_object_database *ent;
> +	struct alternate_object_database *d;
>  
>  	prepare_alt_odb();
> -	for (ent = alt_odb_list; ent; ent = ent->next)
> +	for (d = alt_odb_list; d; d = d->next)
> -		if (fn(ent))
> +		if (fn(d))

I see this as a naming regression; that pointer variable points at an
entry in a list, and the callback is very well aware of that too (so the
s/e/d/g in an earlier hunk also is a naming regression).