send-email: drop misleading function prototype

The subroutine check_file_rev_conflict() is called from two places,
both of which expects to pass a single scalar variable and see if
that can be interpreted as a pathname or a revision name.  It is
defined with a function prototype ($) to force a scalar context
while evaluating the arguments at the calling site but it does not
help the current calling sites.  The only effect it has is to hurt
future calling sites that may want to build an argument list in an
array variable and call it as check_file_rev_confict(@args).

Drop the misleading prototype, as Perlcritic suggests.

While at it, rename the function to avoid new call sites unaware of
this change arising and add a comment clarifying what this function
is for.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 79cc5bee9..fd8bfff3b 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -512,8 +512,9 @@ if (@alias_files and $aliasfiletype and defined $parse_alias{$aliasfiletype}) {
 
 ($sender) = expand_aliases($sender) if defined $sender;
 
-# returns 1 if the conflict must be solved using it as a format-patch argument
-sub check_file_rev_conflict($) {
+# is_format_patch_arg($f) returns 0 if $f names a patch, or 1 if
+# $f is a revision list specification to be passed to format-patch.
+sub is_format_patch_arg {
 	return unless $repo;
 	my $f = shift;
 	try {
@@ -529,6 +530,7 @@ to produce patches for.  Please disambiguate by...
     * Giving --format-patch option if you mean a range.
 EOF
 	} catch Git::Error::Command with {
+		# Not a valid revision.  Treat it as a filename.
 		return 0;
 	}
 }
@@ -540,14 +542,14 @@ while (defined(my $f = shift @ARGV)) {
 	if ($f eq "--") {
 		push @rev_list_opts, "--", @ARGV;
 		@ARGV = ();
-	} elsif (-d $f and !check_file_rev_conflict($f)) {
+	} elsif (-d $f and !is_format_patch_arg($f)) {
 		opendir my $dh, $f
 			or die "Failed to opendir $f: $!";
 
 		push @files, grep { -f $_ } map { catfile($f, $_) }
 				sort readdir $dh;
 		closedir $dh;
-	} elsif ((-f $f or -p $f) and !check_file_rev_conflict($f)) {
+	} elsif ((-f $f or -p $f) and !is_format_patch_arg($f)) {
 		push @files, $f;
 	} else {
 		push @rev_list_opts, $f;