From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:49:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes
Message-ID: <xmqqk0vuktxm.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201013063722.GC3278@larwa.hq.kempniu.pl>

Michał Kępień <michal@isc.org> writes:

> ...  xcalloc()'s semantics
> ("allocate one structure of this size") appealed to me, ...

FWIW, it appeals to me, too ;-)  But if we are going to pass it to
regcomp(), there is no point clearing it beforehand.