Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] commit: fix patch hunk editing with "commit -p -m"

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:19:38 -0700

Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]> writes:

>> +int run_hook_with_custom_index(const char *index_file, const char *name, ...)
>> +{
>> +	const char *hook_env[3] =  { NULL };
>> +	char index[PATH_MAX];
> Sorry being late with the review.
>
> Recently some effort has been put to replace the
>  "PATH_MAX/snprintf() combo" with code using strbuf.
>
> So I think for new developed code it could make sense to avoid
> PATH_MAX from the start.

Yes but because this is a compatibility wrapper for an existing
function that does the string[PATH_MAX] thing already, it would be
clearer to have such a conversion as a separate step.