From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:53:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usage.c: remove unused functions
Message-ID: <gbg1jc$hjm$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809251348.42789.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:

> Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
>> This removes three functions that are not used anywhere.
> [...]
>> -void set_usage_routine(void (*routine)(const char *err) NORETURN)
> [...]
>> -void set_error_routine(void (*routine)(const char *err, va_list params))
> [...]
>> -void set_warn_routine(void (*routine)(const char *warn, va_list params))
> 
> These blame to the following commit:
> 
>   commit 39a3f5ea7c0352a530338d30d4e618f6b4db84e4
>   Author: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
>   Date:   Sat Jun 24 04:34:38 2006 +0200
> 
>       Customizable error handlers
>       
>       This patch makes the usage(), die() and error() handlers customizable.
>       Nothing in the git code itself uses that but many other libgit users
>       (like Git.pm) will.
>   [...]
> 
> So apparently the intent was that they would only be used from outside
> Git.  I don't know whether anyone still plans to do that, but they're
> certainly not "just" unused.

By the way, those functions could be used to implement 
"git --silent <cmd>", which is equivalent of "git <cmd> 2>/dev/null"
(which you don't always can do easily).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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