From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:05:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710030503520.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071003025853.GA11440@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:22:23PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > >   strbuf_init(&url);
> > >   strbuf_addf(&url, "%s/objects/pack/pack-%s.idx", repo->base, hex);
> > 
> > Ugh, this typically calls snprintf() twice doesn't it?
> 
> Yes, it probably does. However, I think it is considerably easier to
> read and more maintainable. Are you "ugh"ing because of the performance
> impact (which should be negligible unless this is in a tight loop) or
> because of the portability problems associated with va_copy?

I wonder, I wonder, if

	strbuf_addstr(&url, repo->base);
	strbuf_addstr(&url, "/objects/pack/pack-");
	strbuf_addstr(&url, hex);
	strbuf_addstr(&url, ".idx");

would make anybody else but me happy...

Ciao,
Dscho