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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] string_list: add two new functions for splitting strings
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:33:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8vchld82.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347311926-5207-3-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:18:42 +0200")

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> +`string_list_split`, `string_list_split_in_place`::
> +
> +	Split a string into substrings on a delimiter character and
> +	append the substrings to a `string_list`.  If `maxsplit` is
> +	non-negative, then split at most `maxsplit` times.  Return the
> +	number of substrings appended to the list.


I recall that we favor

`A`::
`B`::

	Description for A and B

for some reason but do not remember exactly why.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-10 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-10 21:18 [PATCH v2 0/6] Add some string_list-related functions Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] string_list: add function string_list_append_nodup() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 21:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 22:03     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-12 13:32     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] string_list: add two new functions for splitting strings Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 22:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 22:33   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-09-12 13:12     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-09-12 17:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] string_list: add a new function, filter_string_list() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] string_list: add a new function, string_list_remove_duplicates() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] string_list: add a function string_list_longest_prefix() Michael Haggerty
2012-09-10 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] api-string-list.txt: initialize the string_list the easy way Michael Haggerty

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