On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:12:24PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote: > On 5 September 2017 at 23:26, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > > > >> I noticed the HEAD funniness, too, when looking at this earlier. I agree > >> with Junio that it's not quite consistent with the general rule of > >> "string list items point to their refnames", but I don't think it > >> matters in practice. > > > > Yup, we are on the same page; the "fix" I was alluding to would look > > exactly like what you wrote below, but I agree the distinction does > > not matter in practice. IOW, I do not think the code after Martin's > > fix is wrong per-se. > > Well, "not wrong per-se" tells me you'd feel slightly more comfortable > about the state of things if we did this. ;) > > I'll take Peff's hint, tweak/add comments for correctness and symmetry > with the previous patch and add an if-BUG for symmetry. Peff: Do I have > your sign-off? (Do I need it?)
Yes, you have my sign-off. Probably it is not necessary for such a trivial patch, but it never hurts to be sure. > If we re-roll, would you prefer Peff's much smaller take on patch 2 > (strbuf_release where it matters, instead of sprinkling "goto out" all > over)? I think me and him agreed that we'd be fine either way. I'd reuse > my commit message, if I get his sign-off and "From:". You are welcome to forge my sign-off there (but I really am OK with either approach). -Peff
