Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > May be. > Originally utf8.c was about encoding and all kind of UTF-8 related stuff. > Especially it didn't know anything about strbuf. > I don't know why strbuf.h and other functions had been added here, > > I once moved them into strbuf.c without any problems, but never send out > a patch, because of possible merge conflicts in ongoing patches. > > In any case, if it is about strbuf, I would try to put it into strbuf.c Please don't. A code that happens to use strbuf as a container and about manipulating the contents is quite different from a code about strbuf. The latter is to enhance and extend how the strbuf as a container behaves. An operation about character encoding for a string that happens to be stored in strbuf is more about the encoding, and much much less about strbuf. convert.c is about massaging contents coming from the outside world into a shape stored in Git and the other way around, and there are multiple ways the contents are massaged. EOL convention may be adjusted, characters may be reencoded, end-user defined conversion may be applied. Some of these operations may use helpers specific for the task from other more library-ish files, like checking if a string looks like encoded in UTF-8 from utf8.[ch].
