On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 22:08:17 +0300
Joonas Kylmälä <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Joonas Kylmälä:
> >> Note that I didn't have time to look into the broader context of
> >> that patch yet, so I don't know if lookupSettingsHeader should be
> >> completely removed or not.
> > 
> > I will remove it completely in v2. Thanks for the review!
> 
> oh actually, I had yesterday an idea with not removing all the
> references to lookupSettingsHeader because usually that makes
> maintaining the fork more difficult because the delta is bigger. So
> then cherry-picks, merges, etc. will be more difficult. But I will
> remove this one specific line instead of commenting it out in v2.
> Sounds good?
While the delta will be smaller, I'm not sure that it would have an
impact that big on automatic rebases/cherry-picks.

As for rebase/cherry-pick conflicts the commit message that might go in
the v2, and the removal of all the block probably looks clear enough to
most people that have written an application with a graphical toolkit
(GTK, QT, EFL, etc).

The issue here is that people may also need to copy/paste/modify this
part of the code and/or read and/or modify other part of the code as
well, so having something like that would confuse people unless there
is a comment explaining the tradeoff nearby.

And the comment explaining that would then add at least one more line
anyway, so I find removing all the block more clean.

Denis.

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