From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:31:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Buffer overflows
Message-ID: <7v642soai5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fbfju8$7gh$2@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> ...
>> Remember git's history.
>
> On the other hand instead of doing binary diffs from a scratch, git uses
> [customized] LibXDiff library. The same might be done with bstring library,
> I think.

I am very much in favor of reusing code that aleady proved
itself in the field outside git's context.