On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:56:56 -0700
Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Rob Hoelz wrote:
> 
> > My mistake; I had not seen it!  I thought you may have found a bug
> > in my implementation, so I wanted to double check. =)
> 
> Well, I had found an unfortunate consequence of the implementation
> that uses an unnecessary copy. :)
> 
> Will follow up to the updated patch.
> 

I actually wanted to talk about the copy thing.  I realize that this
could have been avoided by simply saving a pointer to the old string
and performing a comparison, but I figured if the implementation for
alias_url were changed in the future to use realloc or something, it
could potentially return the original char * with its contents
altered.  So, by copying the string, we can avoid strange bugs in the
future.

-Rob
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