From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:52:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] sequencer: sequencer state is useless without todo
Message-ID: <20111115095225.GB23139@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nUuzn2_itdACHLQBpUaVv97tFAjNGdVBEhWC7a6Rp75w@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Yeah, git_path() writes to one of the four static buffers in
> path.c:get_pathname().  Which brings me to: what should (can) we do
> about it?

Just use a sane idiom.  Which means: as few git_path() values in
flight at a time as possible.

In other words, do not save the git_path() result in a variable, but
pass it directly to whatever computation needs to use it.