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Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2011, 18:51 UTC
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David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:
> I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone
> tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how?
I do this sort of digging fairly often.

I am not going to do this particular one myself, but the general procedure is to first run "git log --diff-filter=A strbuf.[ch] parse-options.[ch]" to find which commits introduced them (hence, learn who did it, when and why), then go back to the list archive to find the discussions that lead to these changes.

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