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From: "Rubén Justo" <rjusto@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fix a leak with excludes_file
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 21:33:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89a2db74-2bb6-4c62-ad8a-bc4fe5fe49fa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy19nbvtt.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:36:30AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > It does not have to be like that.  We may no longer need the current
> > and problematic git_config_pathname().  However I did not want to go
> > that far in this series.
> 
> True, but that one and only true interface we will end up with MUST
> NOT be strbuf based one, and that is why I said the patch as posted
> will not take us into a better future.

It doesn't have to be having a strbuf-based-only interface, either.

It is about introducing an interface where callers:

	- can take advantage of a not-always-allocate interface, and

	- can stop worrying about freeing previous values, when reusing
	  variables.

This latter fixes the leak while the former introduces a nice "if you
set n-times the same value, we'll allocate once".


      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-08 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-06 14:29 [PATCH 0/4] fix a leak with excludes_file Rubén Justo
2024-04-06 14:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] path.c: introduce strbuf_interpolate_path Rubén Justo
2024-04-06 14:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] config.c: introduce git_config_strbuf_pathname Rubén Justo
2024-04-06 14:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] environment.c: convert excludes_file to struct strbuf Rubén Justo
2024-04-06 14:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] t7300: mark as leak-free Rubén Justo
2024-04-06 17:53 ` [PATCH 0/4] fix a leak with excludes_file Junio C Hamano
2024-04-07 17:48   ` Rubén Justo
2024-04-08 17:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-08 19:33       ` Rubén Justo [this message]

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