On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Often a potential caller has <name, namelen> pair that > represents the name it wants to create an attribute out of. > > When name[namelen] is not NUL, the caller has to xmemdupz() > only to call git_attr(). > > Add git_attr_counted() that takes such a counted string instead of > "const char *name". s/ "const char *name"/a standard C string that is null terminated/ maybe? "const char *name" is not a strong hint that it is not counted? -- 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