# [PATCH] string-list: remove print_string_list from string-list's API

2 messages from 2015-01-15 to 2015-01-15. Participants: Alexander Kuleshov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/38374

## Alexander Kuleshov, 2015-01-15 17:42

Subject: [PATCH] string-list: remove print_string_list from string-list's API
Message-ID: <1421343725-3973-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1421343725-3973-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail%40gmail.com

```
print_string_list routine has no callers anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt |  6 ------
 string-list.c                               | 10 ----------
 string-list.h                               |  1 -
 3 files changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
index c08402b..99e12e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -87,12 +87,6 @@ Functions
 	call free() on the util members of any items that have to be
 	deleted.  Preserve the order of the items that are retained.
 
-`print_string_list`::
-
-	Dump a string_list to stdout, useful mainly for debugging purposes. It
-	can take an optional header argument and it writes out the
-	string-pointer pairs of the string_list, each one in its own line.
-
 `string_list_clear`::
 
 	Free a string_list. The `string` pointer of the items will be freed in
diff --git a/string-list.c b/string-list.c
index 2a32a3f..ba832da 100644
--- a/string-list.c
+++ b/string-list.c
@@ -182,16 +182,6 @@ void string_list_clear_func(struct string_list *list, string_list_clear_func_t c
 	list->nr = list->alloc = 0;
 }
 
-
-void print_string_list(const struct string_list *p, const char *text)
-{
-	int i;
-	if ( text )
-		printf("%s\n", text);
-	for (i = 0; i < p->nr; i++)
-		printf("%s:%p\n", p->items[i].string, p->items[i].util);
-}
-
 struct string_list_item *string_list_append_nodup(struct string_list *list,
 						  char *string)
 {
diff --git a/string-list.h b/string-list.h
index d3809a1..c417bd5 100644
--- a/string-list.h
+++ b/string-list.h
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ struct string_list {
 
 void string_list_init(struct string_list *list, int strdup_strings);
 
-void print_string_list(const struct string_list *p, const char *text);
 void string_list_clear(struct string_list *list, int free_util);
 
 /* Use this function to call a custom clear function on each util pointer */
-- 
2.3.0.rc0.315.g0e14eda

```

## Alexander Kuleshov, 2015-01-15 18:00

Subject: Re: [PATCH] string-list: remove print_string_list from string-list's API
Message-ID: <CANCZXo7hn2wAqtfTNFBiKi_+K6O+vQQAh6pwAcRxjzuetL7+fg@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CANCZXo7hn2wAqtfTNFBiKi_%2BK6O%2BvQQAh6pwAcRxjzuetL7%2Bfg%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daVSMRXiocYAVuWHMmDPmR661cNevaG3RgJC5zyda_Nnig@mail.gmail.com>

```
Maybe need to add comments for print_string_list, for preventing
patches like this?

2015-01-15 23:56 GMT+06:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Alexander Kuleshov
> <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> wrote:
>> print_string_list routine has no callers anywhere.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/262439



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