Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2015, #04; Mon, 27)

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed with
>> '-' are only in 'pu' (proposed updates) while commits prefixed with
>> '+' are in 'next'.
>> ...
> 
> There are a handful of topics that are almost there but not
> finished.  Could the topic owners and area submaintainers who are
> involved in them report their current status soonish, please, to
> help me decide to keep or discard them?
> [...]
>> * mh/numparse (2015-03-19) 14 commits
>>  - diff_opt_parse(): use convert_i() when handling --abbrev=<num>
>>  - diff_opt_parse(): use convert_i() when handling "-l<num>"
>>  - opt_arg(): simplify pointer handling
>>  - opt_arg(): report errors parsing option values
>>  - opt_arg(): use convert_i() in implementation
>>  - opt_arg(): val is always non-NULL
>>  - builtin_diff(): detect errors when parsing --unified argument
>>  - handle_revision_opt(): use convert_ui() when handling "--abbrev="
>>  - strtoul_ui(), strtol_i(): remove functions
>>  - handle_revision_opt(): use convert_i() when handling "-<digit>"
>>  - handle_revision_opt(): use skip_prefix() in many places
>>  - write_subdirectory(): use convert_ui() for parsing mode
>>  - cacheinfo_callback(): use convert_ui() when handling "--cacheinfo"
>>  - numparse: new module for parsing integral numbers
>>
>>  Many codepaths use unchecked use of strtol() and friends (or even
>>  worse, atoi()).  Introduce a set of wrappers that try to be more
>>  careful.
>>
>>  Waiting for a reroll ($gmane/266209).