From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:14:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 7/8] cache: add empty_tree_oid object
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In-Reply-To: <xmqq7fbc1o1f.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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.