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Re: [PATCH 1/2] sequencer: trivial fix

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 29, 2013, 11:23 UTC
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> wrote:

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>> From: Felipe Contreras [mailto:felipe.contreras@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:52 PM
>> To: Joachim Schmitz
>> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sequencer: trivial fix
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Joachim Schmitz
>> <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> wrote:
>> > Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> >>> It probably is better to fold this patch into the other one when it
>> >>> is rerolled to correct the option name gotcha "on the tin".
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Why? This patch is standalone and fixes an issue that is independent
>> >> of the other patch. Why squash two patches that do *two* different
>> >> things?
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, I'll happily drop this patch if you want this memory leak to
>> >> remain. But then I'll do the same in the other patch.
>> >>
>> >> This mantra of avodiing 'goto' is not helping anybody.
>> >
>> >
>> > adding 5 letters (to change the next "if" into an "else if") versus your
>> > addition of several lines and some 15 additional letters (ignoring the
>> > whitsspace)  is IMHO enough to see what is better?
>>
>> This has nothing to do with what Junio said.
>
> Well, it has, but you had snipped it. But replied to the goto issue regardless
I didn't snip anything, this is a different context.
>> This is better done without "goto" in general.
He din't say:

__ It probably is better to fold this patch into the other one when it is rerolled to correct the option name gotcha "on the tin", AND you fix the goto issue. __

You added that last part in your mind. Moreover, he didn't say goto was an issue, he simply stated an opinion about some generality.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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Message 9 of 21 in “cherry-pick: a fix and a new option”
  1. 0/2 cherry-pick: a fix and a new optionFelipe Contreras, May 27, 2013
  2. 1/2 sequencer: trivial fixFelipe Contreras, May 27, 2013
  3. Neil HormanMay 28, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2013
  5. Felipe ContrerasMay 29, 2013
  6. Joachim SchmitzMay 29, 2013
  7. Felipe ContrerasMay 29, 2013
  8. Joachim SchmitzMay 29, 2013
  9. Felipe ContrerasMay 29, 2013
  10. Joachim SchmitzMay 29, 2013
  11. Joachim SchmitzMay 29, 2013
  12. Neil HormanMay 29, 2013
  13. Duy NguyenMay 29, 2013
  14. Felipe ContrerasMay 29, 2013
  15. Duy NguyenMay 29, 2013
  16. Felipe ContrerasMay 29, 2013
  17. Duy NguyenMay 29, 2013
  18. Felipe ContrerasMay 29, 2013
  19. 2/2 cherry-pick: add --skip-commits optionFelipe Contreras, May 27, 2013
  20. Joachim SchmitzMay 28, 2013
  21. Neil HormanMay 28, 2013

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