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Re: Rewriting git-repack.sh in C

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Aug 5, 2013, 10:34 UTC
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Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> writes:
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> Hello,
>
> I'd like to rewrite the repack shell script in C.
> So I tried the naive approach reading the man page and 
> the script itself and write C program by matching each block/line 
> of the script with a function in C

You should add one step here: check that tests are good, and possibly add some to improve coverage. It's easier to add tests when you already have a reference implementation.

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Matthieu Moy
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Previous: Stefan Beller
Message 17 of 17 in “Rewriting git-repack.sh in C”
  1. Stefan BellerAug 2, 2013
  2. Duy NguyenAug 2, 2013
  3. Duy NguyenAug 2, 2013
  4. Fredrik GustafssonAug 3, 2013
  5. Duy NguyenAug 3, 2013
  6. 0/4 Re: Rewriting git-repack.sh in CStefan Beller, Aug 7, 2013
  7. 1/4 Build in git-repackStefan Beller, Aug 7, 2013
  8. Matthieu MoyAug 7, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2013
  10. Stefan BellerAug 7, 2013
  11. Duy NguyenAug 8, 2013
  12. 2/4 backup_file dummy functionStefan Beller, Aug 7, 2013
  13. Duy NguyenAug 8, 2013
  14. 3/4 pack-objects: do not print usage when repackingStefan Beller, Aug 7, 2013
  15. Antoine PelisseAug 8, 2013
  16. 4/4 repack: add unpack-unreachableStefan Beller, Aug 7, 2013
  17. Matthieu MoyAug 5, 2013

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