From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:27:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] sequencer: sequencer state is useless without todo
Message-ID: <7v7h31wduv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111115095225.GB23139@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Or perhaps http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184963/focus=185436