Hi Junio, On 04/09/2026 23:21, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Does this have to be a "struct strbuf", not "const char *"? The > latter makes it clear that it will never change its value once you > built it in disable_auto_maintenance(). It doesn't. I'll make it a char * that replay_ctx_release() frees, built the way you sketch, in the next version. Thanks, Thomas