From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:19:31 GMT
Subject: Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?
Message-ID: <m3wriswxku.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimg-a-k8wR-gotEYUQ+C3LcwsBGuw@mail.gmail.com>

David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git