On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 10:10:48AM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote: > Hi Josh > > On 09/08/2024 23:41, Josh Steadmon wrote: > > Add git_configset_alloc() and git_configset_clear_and_free() functions > > so that callers can manage config_set structs on the heap. This also > > allows non-C external consumers to treat config_sets as opaque structs. > > Do we really need to add this code to config.c rather than handling it in > the wrapper layer in the next patch? > > Looking ahead I wonder how useful it is to users of the library to separate > out allocation from initialization. A function that allocates and > initializes a configset would be more convenient and harder to misuse. > Calling release functions *_free() rather than *_clear_and_free() would be > more convenient as well. I also noticed that the data types are not > namespaced when they are exported. So perhaps we could drop this patch and > add the following to the next patch. Agreed. This is also part of our coding guidelines as of 10f0723c8d (Documentation: document idiomatic function names, 2024-07-30). Patrick
