Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> + strbuf_setlen(sb, len); >>> + strbuf_add(sb, s, strlen(s)); >> >> I am not sure addstr_at() gives us a good abstraction, or at least >> the name conveys what it does well not to confuse readers. >> >> At first after only seeing its name, I would have expected that it >> would splice the given string into an existing strbuf at the >> location, not chopping the existing strbuf at the location and >> appending. > > I think I invented a few new strbuf_* in this series and this is one > of them. We have about ~14 other places in current code that do > similar pattern: set length back, then add something on top. Yes, and you can count getline/getwholeline as a special case to chomp to empty at the beginning. I am not opposed to a helper to give us an easy access to this common pattern. It was just the name "addstr-at" did not sound, at least to me, what it does, i.e. "replace with s from the pos to the end", which I think is the same thing as a single-liner: strbuf_splice(sb, pos, sb->len - pos, s, strlen(s)) -- 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