Re: [PATCH 27/36] attr: convert to new threadsafe API

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Stefan Beller [off-list ref] wrote:

This revamps the API of the attr subsystem to be thread safe.
Before we had the question and its results in one struct type.
The typical usage of the API was

    static struct git_attr_check *check;

    if (!check)
        check = git_attr_check_initl("text", NULL);

Two cents. I read the .txt first and my first thought was "is _initl a
typo, shouldn't it be jsut _init"? I know we have this 'l' variant at
least in argv-array, but there we have many ways of adding arguments.
And here it's just "initl", not "init" nor other "initX" variants,
which looks odd. I wonder if the name git_attr_check_init() would do
the job fine, since we don't have different init variants and the
naming convention is not strong enough to tell me "it's multiple
arguments ended with a NULL one" right away. If you're worried about
people forgetting NULL at the end, how about passing an array of
strings, terminated by NULL, instead?

Just thinking out loud. Maybe _initl _is_ a better name.
-- 
Duy