[PATCH v6 0/6] ref-filter: remove die() calls from formatting logic

Move helper function from strbuf to ref-filter.
Get rid of some memory leaks.

Thanks to everyone!
Olga

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Оля Тележная [off-list ref] wrote:

Move helper function from strbuf to ref-filter.
Get rid of some memory leaks.

The above seems to be the changes since v5. Usually in a cover letter
(patch 0/X) there is both information about the goal of the patch
series and the changes since last version.

Repeating the goal in each version is useful for reviewers who might
not have time to look at the patch series before, or who might have
forgotten about it.

Thanks,
Christian.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Christian Couder
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Оля Тележная [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Move helper function from strbuf to ref-filter.
Get rid of some memory leaks.

The above seems to be the changes since v5. Usually in a cover letter
(patch 0/X) there is both information about the goal of the patch
series and the changes since last version.

Repeating the goal in each version is useful for reviewers who might
not have time to look at the patch series before, or who might have
forgotten about it.

Another important way to help both returning and new reviewers is to
provide a link to the previous iteration (or iterations), like
this[1].

Thanks.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/0102016249d21c40-0edf6647-4d26-46fc-8cfd-5a446b93a5e2-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com/

2018-03-29 17:41 GMT+03:00 Christian Couder [off-list ref]:

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Оля Тележная [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Move helper function from strbuf to ref-filter.
Get rid of some memory leaks.

The above seems to be the changes since v5. Usually in a cover letter
(patch 0/X) there is both information about the goal of the patch
series and the changes since last version.

Repeating the goal in each version is useful for reviewers who might
not have time to look at the patch series before, or who might have
forgotten about it.

Thank you, I wasn't thinking about it that way. I agree, it's important.

Description:
The main idea of the patch is, if you want to format the output by
ref-filter, you should have an ability to work with errors and final
message by yourself if you want to.
So I decided not to touch signature of show_ref_array_item(), but to
move all die() invocations to it. So that we could invoke
format_ref_array_item() and be sure that we could handle errors by
ourselves, and we also get formatted message so we could continue
working with it if we want to.

Thank you,
Olga