From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:20:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsexportcommit: be graceful when "cvs status" reorders the arguments
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In-Reply-To: <7vbq6fvudp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Side note.  I personally do not like naming hashes and arrays
> plural, and call a hash of paths and list of files %path and
> @file respectively.  That convention makes it easier to read
> things like these:
>
> 	$file[4] ;# fourth file, not $files[4]
> 	$path{'hello.c'} ;# path for 'hello.c', not $paths{'hello.c'}
> ...
> +    while (@canstatusfiles) {
> +	    my %basename = ();
> +	    my @status = ();
> +	    my @leftover = ();
> +	    for (my $i = 0; $i < @canstatusfiles; $i++) {
> +		    my $name = $canstatusfiles[$i];
> +		    my $basename = basename($name);

Side note to the side note.

A related naming guideline I failed to follow (because I was
mostly copying your code) suggests that the hash here should be
named %fullname, instead of %basename.  Then logically:

	$fullname{'hello.c'} = 'a/b/hello.c';

that is, you consult %fullname hash using the basename as the
key to extract the corresponding fullname.  The naming guideline
is "Name the dictionary after its values, not after its keys."