From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:18:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Increase some limits in git-mailinfo
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702262117160.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702261207520.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So I'd rather have it return true if it matches, rather than false if it 
> matches and -1/1 if it doesn't. But that's water under the bridge.

In that case, you'd have to name it has_prefix() or hasprefix() rather 
than prefixcmp(), which C programmers used to the semantics of strcmp() 
expect to return a tristate result.

> 	assert(sz);
> 	sz--;

Melikes.

Ciao,
Dscho