[PATCH] Improved handling of git syntax names with no git repository

[Thiago Macieira]

Em sex 14 mar 2014, às 18:00:13, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
> +#define dummy_git_repository ((git_repository *) 8ul) /* Random bogus
> pointer, not NULL */

Out of curiosity, why 8?

8 could technically be a valid pointer, if someone were crazy enough to mmap a 
page at 0x0 (like the old Solaris library lib0 at 0.so).

Values from -3 to 3 are definitely not valid, though.
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