Re: [PATCH 18/18] alternates: use fspathcmp to detect duplicates

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2016, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfuobssdg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161003203626.styj2vwcmgwnpx4v@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... but until recently we couldn't use it for comparing against
> other alternates (because their paths were not
> NUL-terminated strings).

;-)

I should have expected this when reading the "let's have a separate .path field" conversion. Nice job.

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