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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Of course, it probably makes sense to have a whole "git_readdir()" that 
> does this thing in general. That "create_full_path()" thing makes sense 
> regardless, though, in that it also simplifies a lot of "baselen+len" 
> usage in just "len".
> 

In a flash of premonitory insight, libgit2 has 

	gitfo_foreach_dirent(path, callback)

which would probably be well suited for this kind of thing.

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