"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> As Brandon alludes to downthread, we probably should use strbuf for >> things like this these days, so a preliminary clean-up to do so is >> probably a welcome change to sneak in and rebase this series on top >> of. > > Sure, I agree that would be a better change, and I'm happy to reroll > with that. Or we can do the clean-up after this 17-patch series settles, which probably is a better order to do things. It is usually better to make a longer but more mechanical topic like this pass through the system rather quickly, which tends to minimize disruption on other topics.