From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:10:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Conventions on struct copying?
Message-ID: <xmqqvbrwhlki.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140618233129.GK368384@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

"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 ;-).