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Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with()

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2018, 19:06 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 09 2018, Junio C. Hamano jotted:
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> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think following the boost lib makes most sense. Therefore,
>> I would like to go with "istarts_with". OK with you?
>
> I don't care too deeply; if we took starts_with() from there, where
> what we now want is defined as istarts_with(), then that sounds like
> a good thing to do.

I don't care either, but just a note that we had this exact discussion around this time last year when I added a starts_with_icase() [1][2] which eventually got dropped.

1. https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqpohao2hw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
2. https://public-inbox.org/git/20170326121654.22035-4-avarab@gmail.com/
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Message 9 of 32 in “convert: add support for different encodings”
  1. 0/9 convert: add support for different encodingslars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  2. 1/9 strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower()lars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  3. 2/9 strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper()lars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  4. 3/9 strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with()lars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  5. Duy NguyenMar 8, 2018
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2018
  7. Lars SchneiderMar 9, 2018
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2018
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 9, 2018
  10. 4/9 utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOMlars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  11. 5/9 utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOMlars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  12. 6/9 convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attributelars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  13. Eric SunshineMar 7, 2018
  14. Lars SchneiderMar 7, 2018
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  17. 7/9 convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodingslars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  18. Eric SunshineMar 7, 2018
  19. Lars SchneiderMar 9, 2018
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  21. Lars SchneiderMar 7, 2018
  22. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  23. Lars SchneiderMar 7, 2018
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  25. Lars SchneiderMar 7, 2018
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  27. 9/9 convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'lars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018
  28. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  29. Lars SchneiderMar 7, 2018
  30. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2018
  31. Lars SchneiderMar 7, 2018
  32. 8/9 convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attributelars.schneider@autodesk.com, Mar 7, 2018

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