Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/7] git-reflog: add create and exists functions

From: David Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:19:06 -0400

On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 12:48 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >>> Alternatives would be strbuf_reset() or declaring and releasing the
> >>> strbuf within the for-loop scope.
> >>
> >> Because _reset() just rewinds the .len pointer without deallocating,
> >> you would need an extra _release() before it goes out of scope. If
> >> it is expected that the strbuf will be reused for a number of times,
> >> the length of the string each iteration uses is similar, and you
> >> will iterate the loop many times, "_reset() each time and _release()
> >> to clean-up" pattern would save many calls to realloc/free.
> >
> > Yep, that's why I suggested strbuf_reset() as an alternative (and
> > likely would have chosen it myself).
> 
> OK, then let's do that by squashing this in.
> 
>  builtin/reflog.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I squashed that into my repo on github:

https://github.com/dturner-tw/git.git
on the branch dturner/pluggable-backends-preamble