From: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:03:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] rust: add a hash algorithm abstraction
Message-ID: <CAH=ZcbD80RGeuxqcDiWr2KNaQzFCrd=9fQOGo_+pW9E6+HmtQA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq3472dcfl.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>
> > +#[allow(dead_code)]
> > +impl ObjectID {
> > +    pub fn as_slice(&self) -> &[u8] {
> > +        match HashAlgorithm::from_u32(self.algo) {
> > +            Some(algo) => &self.hash[0..algo.raw_len()],
> > +            None => &self.hash,
> > +        }
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    pub fn as_mut_slice(&mut self) -> &mut [u8] {
> > +        match HashAlgorithm::from_u32(self.algo) {
> > +            Some(algo) => &mut self.hash[0..algo.raw_len()],
> > +            None => &mut self.hash,
> > +        }
> > +    }
> > +}
>
> These cases for "None" surprised me a bit; I would have expected us
> to error out when given an algorithm we do not recognise.

I think _Result_ would be more appropriate here.