From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strbuf API
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:53:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070903115328.GC21759@artemis.corp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vejhgksza.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:18:01AM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:32:16AM +0000, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >> ...
> >> For example, it would be very tempting to compare files with
> >> "strcmp(buf1, buf2)", but that would just fail silently when the file
> >> contains a '\0' byte.
> >
> > Indeed, OTHO doing that would be pretty silly, as embending NULs in a
> > strbuf is wrong, it's a _str_buf, not a random-binary-buffer. It's meant
> > to make the use of strings easier, not to use as generic purpose byte
> > buffers. Of course they can, but well, it's not what they are designed
> > for in the first place.
>
> People, please realize strbuf "API" is not a serious API.
>
> It wasn't even intended to be anything more than just a
> quick-and-dirty implementation of fgets that can grow
> dynamically. The other callers added by people to have it do
> general string manipulations were just bolted-on, not designed.
> I haven't taken a serious look at bstring nor any of the
> alternatives yet, but defending strbuf as if it was designed to
> be a sane API is just silly.
actually I was defending the "enhanced" strbuf API I was proposing
before, sorry if that was unclear.
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·O· Pierre Habouzit
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Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 22:42 strbuf API Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-03 5:43 ` Johan Herland
2007-09-03 8:46 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 1:52 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-04 8:47 ` strbuf new semantics, let's give it a try Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 8:47 ` [PATCH] Rework strbuf API and semantics Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 11:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-04 11:53 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 13:34 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-04 14:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 15:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-04 16:18 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 17:18 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-04 14:01 ` [PATCH] Simplify strbuf uses in fast-import.c using the proper functions Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 23:46 ` René Scharfe
2007-09-04 23:46 ` René Scharfe
2007-09-05 7:48 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 8:57 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] Rework strbuf API and semantics Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] Simplify strbuf uses in archive-tar.c using the proper functions Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] Simplify strbuf uses in fast-import.c " Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] Use proper strbuf API, and also simplify cmd_data code Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] Simplify write_tree using strbuf's Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] Further strbuf re-engineering Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] Eradicate yet-another-buffer implementation in buitin-rerere.c Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 19:18 ` [PATCH] More strbuf uses in cache-tree.c Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-19 8:05 ` [PATCH] Further strbuf re-engineering Junio C Hamano
2007-09-05 19:21 ` [PATCH] Simplify strbuf uses in fast-import.c using the proper functions Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-19 8:06 ` [PATCH] Simplify strbuf uses in archive-tar.c " Junio C Hamano
2007-09-19 8:36 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 9:31 ` [PATCH] Rework strbuf API and semantics Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 9:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 10:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 10:22 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-04 14:01 ` [PATCH] Use proper strbuf API, and also simplify cmd_data code Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 4:44 ` [PATCH] Rework strbuf API and semantics Miles Bader
2007-09-04 8:48 ` [PATCH] Add strbuf_fread, use it in fast-import.c Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-03 8:32 ` strbuf API Matthieu Moy
2007-09-03 8:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-03 9:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-09-03 9:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-03 11:53 ` Pierre Habouzit [this message]
2007-09-03 12:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 11:20 ` strbuf new API, take 2 for inclusion Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 1/7] Rework strbuf API and semantics Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 2/7] Simplify strbuf uses in archive-tar.c using the proper functions Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 3/7] Use proper strbuf API, and also simplify cmd_data code Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 4/7] Simplify write_tree using strbuf's Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 5/7] Further strbuf re-engineering Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 6/7] Eradicate yet-another-buffer implementation in buitin-rerere.c Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 7/7] More strbuf uses in cache-tree.c Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 14:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] Eradicate yet-another-buffer implementation in buitin-rerere.c Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 17:17 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 20:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 20:54 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-07 8:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-07 9:02 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 17:59 ` [PATCH 2/7] Simplify strbuf uses in archive-tar.c using the proper functions Kristian Høgsberg
2007-09-06 18:08 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 18:18 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-09-06 18:27 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 22:54 ` René Scharfe
2007-09-06 14:09 ` [PATCH 1/7] Rework strbuf API and semantics Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 14:21 ` Jeff King
2007-09-06 14:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 14:50 ` Jeff King
2007-09-06 15:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 15:36 ` Jeff King
2007-09-06 15:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 15:45 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-09-06 14:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 14:52 ` Jeff King
2007-09-06 17:49 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-09-06 12:58 ` strbuf new API, take 2 for inclusion Jeff King
2007-09-06 17:15 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-06 17:16 ` Jeff King
2007-09-06 17:19 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 11:53 ` Use strbufs in commit.c (pretty printing) Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 11:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add strbuf_rtrim (to remove trailing spaces) Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 11:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] Change semantics of interpolate to work like snprintf Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 11:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] Rework pretty_print_commit to use strbufs instead of custom buffers Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 11:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-08 12:17 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 12:28 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 18:40 ` René Scharfe
2007-09-08 18:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add strbuf_rtrim (to remove trailing spaces) René Scharfe
2007-09-08 22:53 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-08 23:44 ` Pierre Habouzit
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