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Re: What to expect after GIT 0.99.7

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 19, 2005, 09:56 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > * Accept patches for more portability.
> > 
> >   * strcasestr() in mailinfo.  We may need compat/strcasestr.c;
> >     this is bugging OpenBSD folks.
> 
> Maybe something stupid like this?
>
> [...]

I like it. Git does not need a complicated Boyer-Moore algorithm, because that code path is not time critical.

However, I would like it a bit more, if it returned (const char*). After all, we do not need to comply with wrong interface definitions.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 14 of 28 in “GIT 0.99.6”
  1. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  2. Tool renames and 'ls-files -t' outputJunio C Hamano, Sep 8, 2005
  3. Post 0.99.7 preperation patchesJunio C Hamano, Sep 9, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisSep 12, 2005
  5. RFC: s/git-merge-base/git-find-common-ancestor/gYasushi SHOJI, Sep 11, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005
  7. Rename git-merge-base to git-find-merge-baseYasushi SHOJI, Sep 11, 2005
  8. Tool rename fallout fixJunio C Hamano, Sep 9, 2005
  9. No GIT 0.99.7 todayJunio C Hamano, Sep 17, 2005
  10. [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7Junio C Hamano, Sep 18, 2005
  11. What to expect after GIT 0.99.7Junio C Hamano, Sep 18, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2005
  13. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2005
  14. Johannes SchindelinSep 19, 2005
  15. Joachim B HagaSep 19, 2005
  16. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2005
  17. Anton AltaparmakovSep 19, 2005
  18. Matthias UrlichsSep 19, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2005
  22. [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.15Petr Baudis, Sep 19, 2005
  23. Pavel MachekSep 19, 2005
  24. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2005
  25. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  26. Nigel CunninghamSep 19, 2005
  27. Chris WhiteSep 19, 2005
  28. Alan ChandlerSep 19, 2005

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