On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Duy Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> This allows the callback to use 'base' as a temporary buffer to
>>> quickly assemble full path "without" extra allocation. The callback
>>> has to restore it afterwards of course.
>>
>> Hmph, what's the quote around 'without' doing there?
>
> because it's only true if you haven't used up all preallocated space
> in strbuf. If someone passes an empty strbuf, then underneath strbuf
> may do a few realloc until the buffer is large enough.
Would it be easier to understand if written like this?
This allows the callback to use 'base' as a temporary buffer to
quickly assemble full path, thus avoiding allocation/deallocation
for each iteration step.
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