From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:26:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config_set_multivar(): disallow newlines in keys
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231225450.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701220809w1851cbfp5aa7e027ce79eed3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On 1/22/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > BTW IMHO we will probably never libify git; too many too 
> > > > complicated cases exist already.
> > >
> > > We probably don't need it libified completely. Just reading and writing of
> > > the object database and tags/references and very simple revision walking
> > > will be a very good start [...]
> > 
> > ... and even these use xmalloc(), which die()s on out-of-memory. Note that
> > it would be a really horrible work to libify that, since you basically
> > have to insert gazillions of free() calls at the right point, which we
> > don't have to, since exit() cleans up after us anyway.
> 
> Didn't say it'd be simple. Just not impossible.

I thought that was what you meant by "very simple revision walking".

Ciao,
Dscho