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List:       git
Subject:    Re: janitoring
From:       Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin () gmx ! de>
Date:       2009-07-22 22:29:55
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.1.00.0907230028230.3155 () pacific ! mpi-cbg ! de
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Hi,

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > [PATCH 1/3] janitor: use NULL and not 0 for pointers.
> >
> >   I really dislike the use of 0 when NULL is meant. This patch probably
> >   fixes most of them. The biggest culprit is nedmalloc, but a few
> >   remnants exist in plain git code.
> 
> I am not enthused about "fixing" borrowed foreign code, unless we know
> that we are committed to support our fork.  My impression was that this
> ned stuff was borrowed by the MinGW folks with the understanding that we
> will slurp it with minimum modification and turn a blind eye to its
> sub-par coding styles, so that it can be more easily updated from the
> upstream?

Indeed.  Maintaining msysGit is enough of a burden already (and I do not 
often get to do fun stuff anymore).  So I really appreciate your concern 
here.

Ciao,
Dscho

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