Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes: > On 03/03/2014 07:31 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> That is a very good sign why this change is merely a code-churn and >> not an improvement, isn't it? We know (and any strbuf user should >> know) that ->buf and ->len are the ways to learn the pointer and the >> length the strbuf holds. > ... > ... Writing strbufs comes up frequently and will hopefully increase in > usage and I think it is a positive thing to encourage the use of strbufs > by making them increasingly first-class citizens.
Yeah, I understand that. I suspect that the conclusion would have been very different if we were a C++ project; most likely it would be an excellent idea to add an often-used write_or_die() method to the strbuf class. But we are writing C. > Faiz, this is the way things go on the Git mailing list. It would be > boring if everybody agreed all the time :-) Surely, and thanks ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
