Re: [PATCH] rev-parse: match @{u}, @{push} and ^{<type>} case-insensitively

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The new starts_with_case() function is a copy of the existing adjacent
>> starts_with(), just with a tolower() in the "else if".
>> [...]
>> +int starts_with_case(const char *str, const char *prefix)
>> +{
>> +       for (; ; str++, prefix++)
>> +               if (!*prefix)
>> +                       return 1;
>> +               else if (tolower(*str) != tolower(*prefix))
>> +                       return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>
> One thing I'd like feedback on is whether I should be adding this to
> strbuf.c. There are >300 uses of starts_with(), but sha1_name.c will
> be the only one using this modified starts_with_case() function.
> Wouldn't it be better to just add it to sha1_name.c rather than
> expanding the strbuf API with something that'll likely be used by
> nothing else for a while?