Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2020, #03; Mon, 19)

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:13:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> * en/strmap (2020-10-13) 10 commits
>>  - strmap: enable allocations to come from a mem_pool
>>  - strmap: add a strset sub-type
>>  - strmap: add functions facilitating use as a string->int map
>>  - strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps
>>  - strmap: add more utility functions
>>  - strmap: new utility functions
>>  - hashmap: introduce a new hashmap_partial_clear()
>>  - hashmap: allow re-use after hashmap_free()
>>  - hashmap: adjust spacing to fix argument alignment
>>  - hashmap: add usage documentation explaining hashmap_free[_entries]()
>> 
>>  A speciailization of hashmap that uses a string as key has been
>>  introduced.  Hopefully it will see wider use over time.
>> 
>>  Will merge to 'next'.
>
> I haven't gotten a chance to look at this carefully yet, but note that
> the strset here sort-of conflicts with the one I added recently in
> builtin/shortlog.c (already in master). I think the compiler won't
> complain because they never show up in the same translation unit, but we
> should avoid having two almost-the-same types in the codebase.
>
> I suspect my "check_and_add" function could be folded into Elijah's
> implementation. The other big difference is that mine uses the
> FLEX_ALLOC approach, and his doesn't. I haven't digested the code and
> discussion around that from Elijah's series yet.