From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:56:01 GMT
Subject: Re: What to expect after GIT 0.99.7
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509191152260.2519@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509181829310.9106@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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