CodingGuidelines: Add a note to avoid assignments inside if()

Miklos Vajna · gitster · commit 0b0b8cd7c2c3 · 2008-05-24T22:13:19.000-07:00
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna &lt;vmiklos@frugalware.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ For C programs:
    of "else if" statements, it can make sense to add braces to
    single line blocks.
 
+ - We try to avoid assignments inside if().
+
  - Try to make your code understandable.  You may put comments
    in, but comments invariably tend to stale out when the code
    they were describing changes.  Often splitting a function
