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[PATCH 4/5] notes: fix handling of colon-separated values

From
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Nov 4, 2012, 07:07 UTC
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The substrings output by strbuf_split() include the ':' delimiters. When processing GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF and GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF, strip off the delimiter character *before* checking whether the substring is empty rather than after, so that empty strings within the list are also skipped.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
---
 notes.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/notes.c b/notes.c
index 62f8f6f..63b2a09 100644
--- a/notes.c
+++ b/notes.c
@@ -951,10 +951,10 @@ void string_list_add_refs_from_colon_sep(struct string_list *list,
 	split = strbuf_split(&globbuf, ':');
 
 	for (i = 0; split[i]; i++) {
+		if (split[i]->len && split[i]->buf[split[i]->len-1] == ':')
+			strbuf_setlen(split[i], split[i]->len-1);
 		if (!split[i]->len)
 			continue;
-		if (split[i]->buf[split[i]->len-1] == ':')
-			strbuf_setlen(split[i], split[i]->len-1);
 		string_list_add_refs_by_glob(list, split[i]->buf);
 	}
 
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  1. 0/5 Use string_lists when processing notesMichael Haggerty, Nov 4, 2012
  2. 1/5 string_list: add a function string_list_remove_empty_items()Michael Haggerty, Nov 4, 2012
  3. 2/5 Initialize sort_uniq_list using named constantMichael Haggerty, Nov 4, 2012
  4. 3/5 combine_notes_cat_sort_uniq(): sort and dedup lines all at onceMichael Haggerty, Nov 4, 2012
  5. 4/5 notes: fix handling of colon-separated valuesMichael Haggerty, Nov 4, 2012
  6. 5/5 string_list_add_refs_from_colon_sep(): use string_list_split()Michael Haggerty, Nov 4, 2012
  7. Jeff KingNov 4, 2012
  8. Johan HerlandNov 6, 2012

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