[patches] Git repository

[Heikki Orsila <shd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was very pleased to hear that eglibc project exists. I have two 
issues / suggestions:

1. Would you accept strlcpy()/strlcat() functions into eglibc?

	http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/strlcpy.3.htm

strncpy is slow: it pads the whole destination buffer with nulls. Often 
this leads to multiple useless memory accesses as the destination buffer 
is much larger than the source buffer.

strncpy is hard: one often puts an extra null byte to the end of the 
destination buffer and calls strlen() several times.

2. Have you considered switching from SVN to Git? Git would improve 
some operations:

	* Tracks patch _authors_ and _committers_ separately
		* chain of trust gets recorded
		* authors get credited through the SCM tool

	* Lower threshold for 3rd party contributions: Git provides
	  good tools to contribute formatted patches, including change 
	  log entries, timestamps etc.

	* Better log inspection tools

	* more versatile tools (such as bisection, branching and merging
	  tools)

Git is currently used by Linux, Perl, Gnome, X.org, Ruby on Rails, 
Fedora, ...

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Heikki Orsila
heikki.orsila@xxxxxx
http://www.iki.fi/shd