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Re: Conventions on struct copying?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2014, 17:10 UTC
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> I don't know of any place we explicitly copy structs like
> this,...

which should be a reason enough. The first concrete guideline is "just imitate the existing code".

> but I don't know of any prohibition against it, either.
So now you know ;-).
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