Comment by ttaylorr

There are. It was mentioned that they are available in the 'commit comments' on 'banned.h', but you can find them by blaming down to the original commit which introduced each line.

Here are some of them:

  - strcpy()'s rationale: https://github.com/git/git/commit/c8af66ab8ad7cd78557f0f9f5ef6a52fd46ee6dd

  - strcat()'s rationale: https://github.com/git/git/commit/1b11b64b815db62f93a04242e4aed5687a448748

  - strncat()'s rationale: https://github.com/git/git/commit/ace5707a803eda0f1dde3d776dc3729d3bc7759a

  - sprintf()'s rationale: https://github.com/git/git/commit/cc8fdaee1eeaf05d8dd55ff11f111b815f673c58