Re: strbuf new API, take 2 for inclusion

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 6, 2007, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20070906171621.GA5305@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070906171502.GF8451@artemis.corp>

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:15:02PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

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>   Yes, Junio already did that remark. The reason is that it's forward
> compatible: if we ever change strbuf's intitial value for some reason,
> we would just have to rebuild the code. As junio disliked it (and I'm
> not sure I love it either) I've used it where using the _init() function
> was impractical.

OK, I missed that discussion. Thanks for the explanation.

-Peff

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