Re: [PATCH 0/9] new git check-ignore sub-command

> Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> writes:
>
>> I was browsing stackoverflow the other day and came across this question:
>>
>>     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12144633/which-gitignore-rule-is-ignoring-my-file/
>>
>> A quick google revealed this thread from 2009:
>>
>>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108671/focus=108815
>>
>> where Junio and Jeff discussed the possibility of adding a new `git
>> check-ignore' subcommand somewhat analogous to the existing `git
>> check-attr', and suggested the beginnings of an implementation.  It
>> struck me that it might not be too hard to follow these ideas to their
>> natural conclusion, so I decided it would make a fun project :-)
>
> Thanks.  I wish there are more people like you ;-)

> As to styles, I spotted only three kinds of "Huh?":
>
>  * do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL, e.g.
>
>     -static int exclude_args = 0;
>     +static int exclude_args;
>
>  * avoid unnnecessary braces {} around single statement blocks, e.g.
>
>     -if (exclude) {
>     +if (exclude)
>         return exclude;
>     -}
>
>  * else should follow close brace '}' of if clause, e.g.
>
>      if (...) {
>          ...
>     -}
>     -else {
>     +} else {
>          ...