# Re: \[PATCH v2 3/6\] log: make the intent of cmd\_show()'s "rev.pending" juggling clearer

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2022-07-29 18:45:08 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/07/7953293
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2022/07/7953293/t.md

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [ref] writes:

> Adjust code added in 5d7eeee2ac6 (git-show: grok blobs, trees and
> tags, too, 2006-12-14) to use the "memcpy a &blank" idiom introduced
> in 5726a6b4012 (*.c *_init(): define in terms of corresponding *_INIT
> macro, 2021-07-01).

Once we start using the "copy blank object to clear" pattern, we may
want to go all the way to use structure assignment instead of
memcpy().

```