On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> The old name followed the pattern anything-cmp(), which suggests >>> a general comparison function suitable for e.g. sorting objects. >>> But this was not the case for suffixcmp(). >> >> It's not clear to me that prefixcmp() is usable for sorting objects, >> either. Shouldn't it get the same treatment? > > Sounds like a plan for a good follow-up series. Ok, I will have a look. >> If some day we invent a type for 4-byte-aligned object names, it might >> make sense to do something similar to hashcmp, distinguishing between >> hashcmp for use where ordering is important and something like hash_eq >> when checking for equality (since I suspect the latter can be made >> faster). > > Interesting. Yeah, but I will pass on this one. Thanks, Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html