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From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb" <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Renaming .c files to .cc?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 01:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPTJ0XG6FtH-7Jy8rN4K+pQmwkJ5AZ1q-StVmqoSxMGgH-KjsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ae59e3e-9685-b9fa-49b5-71b29d709604@linaro.org>

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:41 PM Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 12/10/19 7:18 PM, Christian Biesinger via gdb wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I was wondering what people's thoughts are on renaming the .c files to
> > .cc, since they are in fact C++ code? (Only for files under gdb/)
>
> I don't have strong objections to this other than it may make things
> slightly more tedious to 'git blame' some files, as Tromey pointed out.

Can you elaborate on that? git blame seems to work as expected for this, e.g.:
$ git blame gdbsupport/gdb_string_view.h
7adcdf08e792 gdb/common/gdb_string_view.h     (Simon Marchi
2018-04-09 13:31:04 -0400   1) // Components for manipulating
non-owning sequences of characters -*- C++ -*-
7adcdf08e792 gdb/common/gdb_string_view.h     (Simon Marchi
2018-04-09 13:31:04 -0400   2)
1a5c25988eab gdb/common/gdb_string_view.h     (Tom Tromey
2019-01-27 12:51:36 -0700   3)
1a5c25988eab gdb/common/gdb_string_view.h     (Tom Tromey
2019-01-27 12:51:36 -0700   4) #ifndef COMMON_GDB_STRING_VIEW_H
1a5c25988eab gdb/common/gdb_string_view.h     (Tom Tromey
2019-01-27 12:51:36 -0700   5) #define COMMON_GDB_STRING_VIEW_H
...
700545387df8 gdb/gdbsupport/gdb_string_view.h (Christian Biesinger
2019-10-01 13:36:07 -0500  49) #include "gdb_assert.h"

And git log has the --follow option for this purpose.

> But i think that is excusable compared to better organization of source
> files, for what they really are (C++ files).
>
> >
> > Advantages:
> > - Easier for newcomers to see that the code is, in fact, C++
> > - Editors will syntax highlight C++ keywords w/o having to be told
> > that these files are C++
>
> The above items sound like reasonable pluses.
>
> >
> > On IRC it was mentioned that git may have issues with renames like
> > that but I have found that "git log --follow" and such are doing a
> > good job with that, at least as long as the same commit doesn't change
> > the file too much while it is renamed, which I wouldn't expect to be a
> > problem here.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > Christian
> >

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-11  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-10 22:19 Christian Biesinger via gdb
2019-12-11  0:42 ` Luis Machado
2019-12-11  1:27   ` Christian Biesinger via gdb [this message]
2019-12-11  1:33     ` Luis Machado
2019-12-11  2:24 ` Simon Marchi
2019-12-11  3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-11 23:00   ` Christian Biesinger via gdb
2019-12-12  6:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-14 18:20       ` Christian Biesinger via gdb
2019-12-11 10:59 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-11 16:35   ` Eli Zaretskii

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