From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:16:21 GMT
Subject: Re: strbuf new API, take 2 for inclusion
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:

>   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