On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > How about using a constant large enough slop? It is not like > PREFIX and SUFFIX are different vastly between calls. The size of the buffer is certainly bounded since the prefix length is constant, the buffer size is constant, and both possible suffixes are also constants. Nicolas - 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