From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:30:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cocci: avoid normalization rules for memcpy
Message-ID: <xmqqr12srcj8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <220710.86ilo580mb.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Since ab/cocci-unused is marked for "next" it would be really nice to
> have this based on top so we can add tests for these transformations
> (the topic adds a way to do that).

Please do not follow this mantra in general.

What is already in 'next' cannot be avoided.  What is not yet in
'next' can yield just fine if needed.