[PATCH 2/4] fast-import: use pointer-to-pointer to keep list tail

2013-03-21 Thread Jeff King
This is shorter, idiomatic, and it means the compiler does not get confused about whether our e pointer is valid, letting us drop the e = e hack. Signed-off-by: Jeff King p...@peff.net --- And it fixes an instance of Linus's people do not understand pointers from here:

Re: [PATCH 2/4] fast-import: use pointer-to-pointer to keep list tail

2013-03-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jeff King wrote: This is shorter, idiomatic, and it means the compiler does not get confused about whether our e pointer is valid, letting us drop the e = e hack. Signed-off-by: Jeff King p...@peff.net --- And it fixes an instance of Linus's people do not understand pointers Heh. Yes,