From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:52:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ci: bump ubuntu image version for static-analysis job
Message-ID: <xmqq7blx7tii.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <anlj3kdAfOh8OnNR@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Taking a step back, I do have to wonder whether the Cocci files have
> been adding any kind of value in the first place. I myself introduced
> some of them in contexts where I made sweeping changes to our APIs, so
> that any in-flight topics can be trivially adjusted via Coccinelle. But
> I very much doubt that anyone ever used those to adapt their in-flight
> patch series at all.
>
> So maybe we should just not do that anymore?

We still do catch when somebody writes "if (a == NULL)", no?