Merge branch 'ph/submodule-rebase'

[git.git] / Documentation / technical / api-strbuf.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
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--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ allocated memory or not), use `strbuf_detach()` to unwrap a memory
 buffer from its strbuf shell in a safe way. That is the sole supported
 way. This will give you a malloced buffer that you can later `free()`.
 +
-However, it it totally safe to modify anything in the string pointed by
+However, it is totally safe to modify anything in the string pointed by
 the `buf` member, between the indices `0` and `len-1` (inclusive).
 
 . The `buf` member is a byte array that has at least `len + 1` bytes
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ Functions
 
 * Adding data to the buffer
 
-NOTE: All of these functions in this section will grow the buffer as
-      necessary.
+NOTE: All of the functions in this section will grow the buffer as necessary.
+If they fail for some reason other than memory shortage and the buffer hadn't
+been allocated before (i.e. the `struct strbuf` was set to `STRBUF_INIT`),
+then they will free() it.
 
 `strbuf_addch`::
 
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
 
        Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer.
 +
-NOTE: The buffer is rewinded if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
+NOTE: The buffer is rewound if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
 `errno` must be consulted, like you would do for `read(3)`.
 `strbuf_read()`, `strbuf_read_file()` and `strbuf_getline()` has the
 same behaviour as well.
@@ -235,6 +237,11 @@ same behaviour as well.
        Read the contents of a file, specified by its path. The third argument
        can be used to give a hint about the file size, to avoid reallocs.
 
+`strbuf_readlink`::
+
+       Read the target of a symbolic link, specified by its path.  The third
+       argument can be used to give a hint about the size, to avoid reallocs.
+
 `strbuf_getline`::
 
        Read a line from a FILE* pointer. The second argument specifies the line