Re: Re* [PATCH v7 1/1] sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband output

>> In the longer term we may want to accept size_t as parameter for
>> clarity (even though we know that a sideband message we are painting
>> typically would fit on a line on a terminal and int is sufficient).
>> Write it down as a NEEDSWORK comment.
>
> This "typically" made me nervous about what happens in the non-typical
> case, but I think we can say something even stronger: the length comes
> from a pktline, so the maximum is less than 16 bits. I wondered if we
> might ever call this on the accumulated string from multiple sidebands,
> but it doesn't look like it.