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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt index 155ac8cb10..94d7a2bd99 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ string-list API =============== -The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle sorted -and unsorted string lists. +The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle +sorted and unsorted string lists. A "sorted" list is one whose +entries are sorted by string value in `strcmp()` order. The 'string_list' struct used to be called 'path_list', but was renamed because it is not specific to paths. @@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`. `sort_string_list`:: - Make an unsorted list sorted. + Sort the list's entries by string value in `strcmp()` order. `unsorted_string_list_has_string`:: |