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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Somewhat related: I was wondering whether it would make sense for git.git
> to rename `strbuf` to `git_buf`? Would that make it easier to exchange
> code between the two projects? Or would it just be unnecessary churn?

To us, "git_buf" is just as descriptive as "buf" and does not say
anything about the nature of 'buf' (other than apparently it was
invented and widely used here).  "git_strbuf" I can understand, but
why should we?