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Re: [PATCH v7 03/11] trailer: read and process config information

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2014, 22:16 UTC
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
>>
>>> The config information is stored in the list
>>> whose first item is pointed to by:
>>>
>>> static struct trailer_item *first_conf_item;
>>
>> If feels somewhat strange ...
>
> Can't say I agree here.  Basically all my doubly-linked lists are not
> for traversing data forwards and backwards ...
> Having a "last" pointer is an orthogonal concept ...
Yeah, that is where "somewhat strange", not "wrong", comes from ;-)
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