Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] string-list: optionally trim string pieces split by string_list_split*()

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:38:52 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 03:04:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> +/* flag bits for split_f and split_in_place_f functions */
>> +enum {
>> +	/* trim() resulting string piece before adding it to the list */
>> +	STRING_LIST_SPLIT_TRIM = (1 << 0),
>> +};
>
> It might be worth defining here what "trim" means. I can think of two
> obvious definitions:
>
>   1. trim whitespace from each split piece
>
>   2. trim excess delimiters from each split piece (which in turn depends
>      on how we handle multiple delimiters; do we make empty pieces, or
>      do we collapse them? I think the former, which would make this type
>      of trimming impossible?).
>
> It looks like the patch does (1).

True.  "nm git | grep trim" tells us that we most of the time use
the word to mean removing whitespaces, but there are exceptions.

It certainly is a good idea to rewrite "trim()" in that comment to
"trim whitespaces around" or something like that.

Thanks.