History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

[David Chanters]

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Hi,

I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone
tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how?  If
I understand strbuf correctly, it's a transparent and dynamic way of
handling strings?  If so, how useful would it be as a separate
project?

TIA!

David

Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

[Jakub Narebski]

David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:

> I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone
> tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how?  If
> I understand strbuf correctly, it's a transparent and dynamic way of
> handling strings?  If so, how useful would it be as a separate
> project?

I don't have a pointers to exchange of emails that started the road to
strbuf and parseopt, but both are described in the techical
documentation (GIT API Documents):

  Documentation/techical/*
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/api-index.html
  
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/api-strbuf.html
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/technical/api-parse-options.html

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

[Junio C Hamano]

David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:

> I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone
> tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how?

I do this sort of digging fairly often.

I am not going to do this particular one myself, but the general procedure
is to first run "git log --diff-filter=A strbuf.[ch] parse-options.[ch]"
to find which commits introduced them (hence, learn who did it, when and
why), then go back to the list archive to find the discussions that lead
to these changes.