From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:50:19 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb: how to name main "action" subroutines?
Message-ID: <ealfsa$hho$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060731172625.48437.qmail@web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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Luben Tuikov wrote:

> --- Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm going to rename some gitweb subroutines to better correspond to what
>> given subroutine does. I have problem: how to name main "action"
>> subroutines? Currently they use git_ prefix, e.g. git_logo.
>> git_project_list, git_rss, git_summary, git_heads,...
>> 
>> I have thought about do_logo, or gitweb_logo, or out_logo etc., but somehow
>> none is best.
> 
> "git_<noun>_<verb>" ?  So then you'd have, for example "git_logo_show".

I'd rather reserve git_ prefix for subroutines which deal with git repository, 
either by calling git commands (e.g. git_get_type), or accessing git repository
directly (e.g. git_read_hash, git_read_description).

I'm partial to either out_foo or gitweb_foo...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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