Re: Increase some limits in git-mailinfo

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 26, 2007, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702261221530.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702262117160.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > 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.

Sure. Or "match_prefix()" or whatever. I agree.

		Linus