From: Robear Selwans Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 05:21:46 GMT Subject: Re: [GSoC][RFC][PATCH 1/2] STRBUF_INIT_CONST: a new way to initialize strbuf Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <113d4221-d7bd-cf0c-ebfc-1fc08442c303@web.de> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:49 PM René Scharfe wrote: > > Could you perhaps include a patch that makes use of it in this series, > to highlight its benefits? Well to begin with, I'm actually doing this in response to this issue [https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/398]. The issue was created because of the following mail thread, though. [https://public-inbox.org/git/20180601200146.114919-1-sbeller@google.com/] To be honest, I'm not entirely sure about how making these changes would help, as my experience is still quite limited. But from what I've read, I think the main use-case would be using const `strbuf`s to avoid memory leaks when dealing with config strings.