Re: [GSoC][RFC][PATCH 1/2] STRBUF_INIT_CONST: a new way to initialize strbuf

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:49 PM René Scharfe [off-list ref] wrote:

Could you perhaps include a patch that makes use of it in this series,
to highlight its benefits?

Well to begin with, I'm actually doing this in response to this issue
[https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/398].
The issue was created because of the following mail thread, though.
[https://public-inbox.org/git/20180601200146.114919-1-sbeller@google.com/]
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure about how making these changes
would help, as my experience is still quite limited. But from what
I've read, I think the main
use-case would be using const `strbuf`s to avoid memory leaks when
dealing with config strings.