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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:19:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wriswxku.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimg-a-k8wR-gotEYUQ+C3LcwsBGuw@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-17 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-17 15:13 History for Strbuf and ParseOpts? David Chanters
2011-04-17 18:19 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-04-17 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano

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