From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:38:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/16] prepare_tempfile_object(): new function, extracted from create_tempfile()
Message-ID: <xmqqh9o5r4y2.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <29cc87f510f6bc171c3ed76767b68f67ef403223.1439198011.git.mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> This makes the next step easier.
>
> The old code used to use "path" to set the initial length of
> tempfile->filename. This was not helpful because path was usually
> relative whereas the value stored to filename will be absolute. So
> just initialize the length to 0.

Makes sense.