> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 13:11
> 
> "brian m. carlson" <sand...@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 ;-).

To expand, on that do not trust the compiler to do deep copies.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2302351/assign-one-struct-to-another-in-c

Hit #1 on https://www.google.com/search?q=c+assignment+of+struct

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