From: Faiz Kothari Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:46:35 GMT Subject: [PATCH] GSoC 2014 Microproject 1 rewrite skip_prefix() as loop 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 --- 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