On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 03:08:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > The only thing common in this series is it's the result of > > -Wwrite-strings. 1/3 changes some "char *" to "const char *", you > > don't miss anything. > > While reading Peff's clarification patch, I did find the assignment > of "" to the *out pointer disturbing. That part of your patch (I > presume that is what you mean by the above) may want to be revived.
That part was inherited from diff_populate_filespec, though it casts explicitly to "char *" since d2543b8 (Clean up diff.c, 2006-06-24). I guess we could do the same here (not that it makes things any safer, but at least tells everyone "yes, I _know_ this is weird". -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
