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Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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Apr 17, 2011, 18:19 UTC
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David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:
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> I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone
> tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how?  If
> I understand strbuf correctly, it's a transparent and dynamic way of
> handling strings?  If so, how useful would it be as a separate
> project?

I don't have a pointers to exchange of emails that started the road to strbuf and parseopt, but both are described in the techical documentation (GIT API Documents):

  Documentation/techical/*
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/api-index.html
  
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/api-strbuf.html
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/api-parse-options.html
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Jakub Narebski
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