Re: [PATCH 2/5] [GSOC] ref-filter: add %(raw) atom

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> On Thu, Jul 22 2021, ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> > [..] add a new member in
> > `struct atom_value`: `s_size`, which can record raw object size, it
> > can help us add raw object data to the buffer or compare two buffers
> > which contain raw object data.
>
> I didn't look in detail, just one nit/comment, no need to re-roll for this:
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> >  struct atom_value {
> >       const char *s;
> > +     size_t s_size;
> >       int (*handler)(struct atom_value *atomv, struct ref_formatting_state *state,
> >                      struct strbuf *err);
> >       uintmax_t value; /* used for sorting when not FIELD_STR */
> >       struct used_atom *atom;
> >  };
> >
> > +#define ATOM_VALUE_S_SIZE_INIT (-1)
> > +
>
> This and then later doing (this appears to be the only initialization?):

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> >       if (format->need_color_reset_at_eol) {
> >               struct atom_value resetv;
> > +             resetv.s_size = ATOM_VALUE_S_SIZE_INIT;
> >               resetv.s = GIT_COLOR_RESET;
> >               if (append_atom(&resetv, &state, error_buf)) {
> >                       pop_stack_element(&state.stack);
>
> Is a rather unusual pattern, more typical would be:
>
>         struct atom_value { .... }
>         #define ATOM_VALUE_INIT { \
>                 .s_size = -1, \
>         }
>
> Then:
>
>         struct atom_value resetv = ATOM_VALUE_INIT;
>
> You could keep that "#define ATOM_VALUE_S_SIZE_INIT (-1)" to check the
> init value, personally I think it's just fine to hardcode the -1 literal
> and do "size < 0" checks, which we us as convention in a lot of other
> places for "not initialized".