Re: [PATCH] git: use COPY_ARRAY and MOVE_ARRAY in handle_alias()

> Use the macro COPY_ARRAY to copy array elements and MOVE_ARRAY to do the
> same for moving them backwards in an array with potential overlap.  The
> result is shorter and safer, as it infers the element type automatically
> and does a (very) basic type compatibility check for its first two
> arguments.
> 
> These cases were missed by Coccinelle and contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci
> because the type of the elements is "const char *", not "char *", and
> the rules in the semantic patch cautiously insist on the sizeof operator
> being used on exactly the same type to avoid generating transformations
> that introduce subtle bugs into tricky code.