From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:00:21 GMT Subject: Re: janitoring Message-ID: <7vws60cr9m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1248298475-2990-1-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org> Pierre Habouzit writes: > [PATCH 1/3] janitor: use NULL and not 0 for pointers. > > I really dislike the use of 0 when NULL is meant. This patch probably > fixes most of them. The biggest culprit is nedmalloc, but a few > remnants exist in plain git code. I am not enthused about "fixing" borrowed foreign code, unless we know that we are committed to support our fork. My impression was that this ned stuff was borrowed by the MinGW folks with the understanding that we will slurp it with minimum modification and turn a blind eye to its sub-par coding styles, so that it can be more easily updated from the upstream?