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[PATCH] GSoC 2014 Microproject 1 rewrite skip_prefix() as loop

From
FKFaiz Kothari <faiz.off93@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 26, 2014, 16:46 UTC
Message-ID
<1393433195.4629.4.camel@dj-pc>

Hi, I am Faiz Kothari, I am a GSoC aspirant and want to contribute to git. I am submitting the patch in reponse to Microproject 1, rewrite git-compat-util.h:skip_prefix() as a loop.

Signed-off-by: Faiz Kothari <faiz.off93@gmail.com>
---
 git-compat-util.h | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index cbd86c3..bb2582a 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ extern int suffixcmp(const char *str, const char
*suffix);
 
 static inline const char *skip_prefix(const char *str, const char
*prefix)
 {
-	size_t len = strlen(prefix);
-	return strncmp(str, prefix, len) ? NULL : str + len;
+	for (; ; str++, prefix++)
+		if (!*prefix)
+			return str;//code same as strbuf.c:starts_with()
+		else if (*str != *prefix)
+			return NULL;
 }
 
 #if defined(NO_MMAP) || defined(USE_WIN32_MMAP)
-- 
1.9.0.1.ge8df331
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  1. GSoC 2014 Microproject 1 rewrite skip_prefix() as loopFaiz Kothari, Feb 26, 2014
  2. Michael HaggertyFeb 27, 2014
  3. Faiz KothariFeb 27, 2014

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