From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:48:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] add strnncmp() function
Message-ID: <20140617174817.GQ8557@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140617154953.GC5162@hudson.localdomain>

>> On 2014-06-17 09.34, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:

>>> Also, strnncmp() was switched from using memcmp() to strncmp()
>>> internally to make it clear that this is meant for strings, not
>>> general buffers.

Why shouldn't I want to use this helper on arbitrary data?  One of the
advantages of other helpers in git that take a pointer and a length
(e.g., the strbuf library) are that they are 8-bit clean and can work
on binary data when it's useful.

Thanks,
Jonathan