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Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: add suport for CVS pserver method HTTP/1.x proxying

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 19:51:44

Thanks.  The patch looks very sane, isolated to be safe enough,
and useful.

Except that this statement made me go "huh?" wondering what it
would do to the $filehandle to evaluate <$filehandle> in a void
context:

+			# Skip the empty line of the proxy server output
+			<$s>;

and I ended up looking in perlop.pod and came up empty.

The "I/O Operators" section talks about evaluating <$s> in a
scalar context (i.e. "$rep = <$s>"), which we all know would
return a single line, and in list context, which swallows
everything up to EOF, an obvious disaster for this particular
use.  I couldn't find how it is defined to behave in a void
context.  By experiments I know this returns only one line, but
it leaves me feeling somewhat uneasy.

Also it has a style inconsistency between "if(expression) {" and
"if(expression){", and I do not like either of them, but fixing
that should be left to a separate patch.

I'll apply this unless Martin or other people on the list who
have stake in cvsimport objects.
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