Re: what if i use makeheader tool to generate c header file, it would be accepted.

From: Skrab Sah <skrab.sah@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 20, 2022, 08:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+J78MWvOEbJY6+NcLFn0SJGMZn=N7QUMwc=Bta+uHicvD892w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbkrbb6ua.fsf@gitster.g>

Let me elaborate to you, how and why I wanted to implement the makeheaders tool in the project.

First of all, this program will automatically generate c header(.h) files for specified c source(.c) files, which will help the developer.

Here the test shows how the tool can be implemented in different cases: https://github.com/skrab-sah/makeheaders-test

pros:
    1. it will slightly reduce the size of the project.
    2. no need to declare anything in the header file, which is time
consuming and a headache for developers.

On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 23:10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Mon, Sep 19 2022, Skrab Sah wrote:
> >
> > Just sending a $subject is rather light on details, so I'm having to do
> > a lot of guessing, but here goes.
> > ...
> > In case this is a genuine "prep question" that you're asking in
> > wonderining if you should even waste time on coming up with a patch to
> > do $subject I want to say that:
> > ...
> > Now, this does *not* mean that we're not interested, but just that we're
> > very big on a "show your work" approach to things.
>
> Perhaps this should be made into a FAQ entry?
>
> In general, we do not give promises or guidance, but something a
> contributor finds it rewarding to work on, whether we would leter
> accept in the upstream, will spread among users and developers, and
> eventually we would come begging to the contributor for upstreaming.
>
> On the other hand, a new thing that the contributor who thought of
> does not feel it is worth investing their work in, if only to use
> for themselves, is unlikely to be of interest to us.
>
> So saying "if this will be accepted, I'll work on it" is counter
> productive, as it is easily (mis)taken as a sign that it is the
> latter case.
>
> In other words, make it so good that we would come to you.
>
> Thanks.
>