Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] add strnncmp() function

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:48:17 -0700

>> On 2014-06-17 09.34, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:

>>> Also, strnncmp() was switched from using memcmp() to strncmp()
>>> internally to make it clear that this is meant for strings, not
>>> general buffers.

Why shouldn't I want to use this helper on arbitrary data?  One of the
advantages of other helpers in git that take a pointer and a length
(e.g., the strbuf library) are that they are 8-bit clean and can work
on binary data when it's useful.

Thanks,
Jonathan