From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:33:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] string_list: add two new functions for splitting strings
Message-ID: <7v8vchld82.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1347311926-5207-3-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> +`string_list_split`, `string_list_split_in_place`::
> +
> +	Split a string into substrings on a delimiter character and
> +	append the substrings to a `string_list`.  If `maxsplit` is
> +	non-negative, then split at most `maxsplit` times.  Return the
> +	number of substrings appended to the list.


I recall that we favor

`A`::
`B`::

	Description for A and B

for some reason but do not remember exactly why.