From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:08:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] simplified the chain if() statements of install_branch_config() function in branch.c
Message-ID: <878usia09y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140310T094407-5@post.gmane.org>

Nemina Amarasinghe <neminaa@gmail.com> writes:

>> 
>> Nemina Amarasinghe <neminaa <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> Is it me, or is (origin || !origin) a tautology?
>> 
> Thanks for the advices Matthieu. I will go through the documentations again. 
> Is there anything wrong with my logic? 
> What I wanted to express is
> ((!remote_is_branch && origin) || (!remote_is_branch || !origin))

Is it?

The above is the same as (!remote_is_branch || !origin).  What you wrote
before is the same as (!remote_is_branch).

Maybe you should try copy&paste from the expressions you are trying to
combine to make sure that what you start with makes sense.

-- 
David Kastrup