Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] git_config callers rewritten with the new config cache API

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Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 7/21/2014 7:15 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> On 7/21/2014 6:21 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>>> 2) Add a by-address parameter to git_configset_get_value that allows the
>>>>    user to get the file and line information. In your previous patch,
>>>>    that would mean returning a pointer to the corresponding struct
>>>>    key_source.
>>>
>>> Will this extra complexity be good for "git_configset_get_value"?
>>> Instead can we provide a function like die_config(char *key)
>>> which prints
>>> 	die("bad config file line %d in %s", linenr, filename);?
>> 
>> Where would you call this function, and where would you take linenr and
>> filename?
>>
>
> Usage can be like this,
>
> if(!git_config_get_value(k, &v)) {
> 	if (!v) {
> 		config_error_nonbool(k);
> 		die_config(k);
> 		/* die_config calls git_config_get_value_multi for 'k',
> 		 * gets the string list with the util pointer containing
> 		 * the linenr and the file name, dies printing the message.
> 		 */
> 	} else
> 		/* do work */
> }

OK, so you query the cache twice (which is OK, it's cheap and happens
just once before dying). That would work too.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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