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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help.c: strip suffix only if the STRIP_EXTENSION defined
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:39:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316173941.GA9142@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZXo6KGtuuiZ3aha=Tqkwj3d8qytmA_rvw7fPHfevzz9Qyfg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:36:49PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:

> > I also wonder if this should be sharing the strip_extension() helper
> > added in your 63ca1c0.
> 
> Yes, I want to move strip_extension() (from 63ca1c0) to the git-compat-util.h
> and adapt/reuse it in the help.c. What do you think about this?

Naively, it sounds like a good idea to me, but I haven't looked too
hard. There may be complications in the interface (it looks like the
helper wants to make a new string, but one in help.c makes its own copy
into the flex-array struct).

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16 14:27 [PATCH] help.c: strip suffix only if the STRIP_EXTENSION defined Alexander Kuleshov
2016-03-16 14:47 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-03-16 16:20   ` Alexander Kuleshov
2016-03-16 17:31 ` Jeff King
2016-03-16 17:36   ` Alexander Kuleshov
2016-03-16 17:39     ` Jeff King [this message]

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