From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 20:49:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] imap-send: include strbuf.h
Message-ID: <xmqq353ttlez.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20230518182504.GA557383@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 09:01:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I am actuall hoping that somebody clever, with time, comes up
>> with a systematic way to give us better coverage, but until then, I
>> think it is better to honestly record where we are to future
>> developers.
>
> I faced a similar issue with the -Wunused-parameter patches. Just when I
> thought I had everything annotated, I'd find some obscure Makefile knob
> that compiled new code (or even in one case disabled some code that used
> a variable!).
> ...
> But at least in this case, the old "if it is important, somebody will
> build it and report the problem" line of thinking worked out. So maybe
> that is enough.

Ah, I guess the debugging situation is quite similar with that
topic.  Thanks for your insight.