Re: [PATCH v2 02/21] path.c: rename vsnpath() to git_vsnpath()

> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>>>> Ramsay Jones wrote:
>
>>>>> :-D I renamed this _from_ git_vsnpath() in commit 5b3b8fa2 ("path.c: Remove the
>>>>> 'git_' prefix from a file scope function", 04-09-2012), because ... well it's a
>>>>> file scope function! (i.e. the git_ prefix implies greater than file scope).
>>>>> I'm not very good at naming things, so ...
> [...]
>> OK I go with this. I think it makes sense
>>
>> vsnpath -> do_git_path
>
> I think this renaming would be still losing clarity --- it loses the
> information that this is the vsnprintf-like variant of git_path.
>
> Do we actually have a convention that functions with git_ prefix
> should be global?  If git_path were not global, would it have to be
> renamed?  If git_vsnpath should be renamed to avoid mistaking it for
> git's replacement of a hypothetical standard library vsnpath function,
> shouldn't git_path, git_pathdup, etc be renamed for the same reason as
> well?
>
>> its three callers are
>>
>> git_vsnpath -> strbuf_git_path (it's updated to take strbuf)
>> git_path
>> git_pathdup
>
> Yeah, independently of everything else, a strbuf variant sounds nice.