On: Banned C standard library functions in Git source ...

[saagarjha]

What does Git use instead for copying strings? snprintf?

Edit: also interesting is a search for alloca: https://github.com/git/git/search?utf8=&q=alloca&type=

[LukeShu → saagarjha]

Git has an internal "strbuf" library https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/strbuf.h

[masklinn → LukeShu]

Alternatively it also uses snprintf, though as a small internal variant (xsnprintf) which literally kills the program if the destination buffer is too small: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/wrapper.c#L636-L650