Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > My knee-jerk reaction to Junio's question was along the same line: > surely if we could have a NUL in there, the current `strlen()` would use > it as an excuse to silently truncate the string, either before > processing or afterwards. Thanks for looking into that more. Exactly. The change introduces a behaviour change, and we should describe it in the log message to help future developers know that we did this change, knowingly that we are changing the behaviour, and believing that the new behaviour is a better one. Thanks.