Re: Making literal "20" symbolic
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 20:47:26
Andy Parkins [off-list ref] writes:
I notice that there are a lot of uses of the literal 20 throughout git; I'd like to change them (as appropriate) to HASH_WIDTH, or similar; and maybe HASH_WIDTH_ASCII for the 40s. Is there a particular header file that is appropriate to put #define HASH_WIDTH 20 #define HASH_WIDTH_ASCII (HASH_WIDTH*2) Of course, I plan to review each instance to make sure I'm not changing a non-hash width 20.
Probably in cache.h, close to where it defines is_null_sha1(), hashcmp(), and friends, is the right place. There are few places that say 42 (because we have 40-hex at the beginning of line, followed by a single whitespace and then something should follow so line length must be at least 42 chars), so hunting them all would be a lot of work, but I do think this is a worthwhile cleanup.