Hi Junio,

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The pattern taken by all the validations in this function is:
> 
>       if (notice a violation exists) {
>               err = report(... VIOLATION_KIND ...);
>               if (err)
>                       return err;
>       }
> 
> where report() returns zero if specified kind of violation is set to
> be ignored, and otherwise shows an error message and returns non-zero.
> 
> The last validation in the function immediately after the function
> returns 0 to declare "all good" can cheat and directly return the
> return value from report(), and the current code does so, i.e.
> 
>       if (notice a violation exists)
>               return report(... VIOLATION_KIND ...);
>       return 0;
> 
> But that is a selfish code that declares it is the ultimate and
> final form of the function, never to be enhanced later.  To allow
> and invite future enhancements, make the last test follow the same
> pattern.

FWIW I agree with this reasoning. Sorry for leaving this to you to clean
up.

Ciao,
Dscho
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