Re: [PATCH v8 7/8] cache: add empty_tree_oid object

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 19, 2016, 21:14 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a reason for that? I've found that .field = value is safer
>> because it ensures that you don't end up initializing the wrong
>> values? Or is it a compatibility thing?
>
> Yes.

That was a bit too terse. The answers to all three questions are "Yes", "Yes", and "Yes".

Together with enum ... = { A, B, C, }; we may want to consider not worrying about ancient compilers at some point, and it might be this year or next year, but I do not think we want to do that as part of this series.

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