Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] C99: declare bool experiment a success

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM Phillip Wood [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Phillip Wood <redacted>

We've had a test balloon for C99's bool type since 8277dbe987
(git-compat-util: convert skip_{prefix,suffix}{,_mem} to bool,
2023-12-16). As it has been over 18 months since this was added and
there have been no complaints let's declare it a success and convert
the return type our other string predicates to match.

Thank you to everyone who commented on V1, the only change here is
to fix the typos in the commit message for patch 2.

Base-Commit: a30f80fde927d70950b3b4d1820813480968fb0d
Published-As: https://github.com/phillipwood/git/releases/tag/pw%2Fuse-c99-bool%2Fv2
View-Changes-At: https://github.com/phillipwood/git/compare/a30f80fde...669687147
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/phillipwood/git pw/use-c99-bool/v2


Phillip Wood (3):
  CodingGuildlines: allow the use of bool
  git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return bool
  strbuf: convert predicates to return bool

 Documentation/CodingGuidelines |  3 +++
 git-compat-util.h              | 12 ++++++------
 strbuf.c                       | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
 strbuf.h                       | 12 ++++++------
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Range-diff against v1:
1:  352f80c49b7 = 1:  352f80c49b7 CodingGuildlines: allow the use of bool
2:  a0f9182aa20 ! 2:  0b2402e11cc git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return bool
    @@ Commit message
         git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return bool

         Since 8277dbe987 (git-compat-util: convert skip_{prefix,suffix}{,_mem}
    -    to bool, 2023-12-16) a number of our sting predicates have been
    -    returning bool instead of int. Now we've declared that experiment
    -    a success lets convert the return type the case independent
    +    to bool, 2023-12-16) a number of our string predicates have been
    +    returning bool instead of int. Now that we've declared that experiment
    +    a success, let's convert the return type of the case-independent
         skip_iprefix() and skip_iprefix_mem() functions to match the return
    -    type of their case dependent equivalents. Returning bool instead of
    +    type of their case-dependent equivalents. Returning bool instead of
         int makes it clear that these functions are predicates.

         Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood [off-list ref]
3:  7eaf8042061 = 3:  66968714739 strbuf: convert predicates to return bool
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2.49.0.897.gfad3eb7d210

This version looks good to me, thanks!