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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-02-27 10:33:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-02-27 10:33:53 -0800 |
| commit | 2b0f6b1c187742ec6719478a01885ad902456f84 (patch) | |
| tree | 027e967241308d54854408b9780e20a3c1afca91 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'bp/name-hash-dirname-fix' (diff) | |
| parent | CodingGuidelines: mention "static" and "extern" (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2b0f6b1c187742ec6719478a01885ad902456f84.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/doc-do-not-write-extern'
Devdoc update.
* jk/doc-do-not-write-extern:
CodingGuidelines: mention "static" and "extern"
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index c4cb5ff0d4..48aa4edfbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -386,6 +386,11 @@ For C programs: - Use Git's gettext wrappers to make the user interface translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in po/README. + - Variables and functions local to a given source file should be marked + with "static". Variables that are visible to other source files + must be declared with "extern" in header files. However, function + declarations should not use "extern", as that is already the default. + For Perl programs: - Most of the C guidelines above apply. |