Re: History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

David Chanters [off-list ref] writes:

I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone
tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how?

I do this sort of digging fairly often.

I am not going to do this particular one myself, but the general procedure
is to first run "git log --diff-filter=A strbuf.[ch] parse-options.[ch]"
to find which commits introduced them (hence, learn who did it, when and
why), then go back to the list archive to find the discussions that lead
to these changes.