From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 06:04:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert size datatype to size_t
Message-ID: <xmqq8tit8efv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1502222450-20815-1-git-send-email-martin@mail.zuhause>

Martin Koegler <martin.koegler@chello.at> writes:

> From: Martin Koegler <martin.koegler@chello.at>
>
> It changes the signature of the core object access function
> including any other functions to assure a clean compile if
> sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(unsigned long).

As https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/262463159 shows, unfortunately
it turns out that things are not so simple X-<.  On Linux32, size_t
is uint, which is the same size as ulong, but "%lu" is not appropriate
for showing a size_t value.

So you are correct to say in the comment under three-dashes that
there is much more to change in the codebase.