Hi Peff,

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, Jeff King wrote:

> We have two forms of write_file(): one that dies, and one
> that returns an error. However, the latter has only a single
> caller, which immediately dies anyway (after producing a
> message that is not really any more informative than
> write_file's generic die(), and arguably worse because it
> does not give the actual filename).

This is more an illustration of unnecessarily duplicated code, isn't it?
There are *tons* of instances in Git's code where writing to a file is
implemented separately (and differently).

It would make tons of sense to consolidate all of these instances,
methinks. The diffstat should look *very* pleasing.

Ciao,
Dscho
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