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Re: [PATCH 6/6] odb_pack_keep(): stop generating keepfile name

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2017, 01:24 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> The odb_pack_keep() function generates the name of a .keep
> file and opens it. This has two problems:
>
>   1. It requires a fixed-size buffer to create the filename
>      and doesn't notice when the result is truncated.
>
>   2. Of the two callers, one sometimes wants to open a
>      filename it already has, which makes things awkward (it
>      has to do so manually, and skips the leading-directory
>      creation).
>
> Instead, let's have odb_pack_keep() just open the file.
> Callers can use odb_pack_name() separately to generate the
> name. This simplifies the callers, and lets us drop any
> buffer-size limitations.

That's sensible (and all the others made the resulting code much more pleasant to the eyes).

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Message 8 of 25 in “minor pack-name cleanups”
  1. 0/6 minor pack-name cleanupsJeff King, Mar 15, 2017
  2. 1/6 index-pack: factor out pack/idx finalizationJeff King, Mar 15, 2017
  3. Ramsay JonesMar 15, 2017
  4. Jeff KingMar 15, 2017
  5. Jeff KingMar 15, 2017
  6. 2/6 move odb_* declarations out of git-compat-util.hJeff King, Mar 15, 2017
  7. 6/6 odb_pack_keep(): stop generating keepfile nameJeff King, Mar 15, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2017
  9. 3/6 sha1_file.c: make pack-name helper globally accessibleJeff King, Mar 15, 2017
  10. 4/6 index-pack: drop fixed-size buffer for pack filenamesJeff King, Mar 15, 2017
  11. 5/6 fast-import: replace fixed buffer with odb_pack_nameJeff King, Mar 15, 2017
  12. 0/5 minor pack-name cleanupsJeff King, Mar 16, 2017
  13. 1/5 move odb_* declarations out of git-compat-util.hJeff King, Mar 16, 2017
  14. 2/5 sha1_file.c: make pack-name helper globally accessibleJeff King, Mar 16, 2017
  15. Jeff KingMar 16, 2017
  16. Ramsay JonesMar 16, 2017
  17. Jeff KingMar 16, 2017
  18. 3/5 odb_pack_keep(): stop generating keepfile nameJeff King, Mar 16, 2017
  19. 4/5 replace snprintf with odb_pack_name()Jeff King, Mar 16, 2017
  20. Ramsay JonesMar 16, 2017
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2017
  22. Jeff KingMar 16, 2017
  23. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2017
  24. 5/5 index-pack: make pointer-alias fallbacks saferJeff King, Mar 16, 2017
  25. Ramsay JonesMar 16, 2017

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