From: Siddharth Goel Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:03:04 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2] skip_prefix:rewrite so that prefix is scanned once Message-ID: <1393772584-3716-1-git-send-email-siddharth98391@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine Signed-off-by: Siddharth Goel --- Thanks a lot Eric for your valuable comments. Please let me know if there is anything else which needs to be modified in this patch. 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 614a5e9..550dce3 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; + while (*prefix != '\0' && *str == *prefix) { + str++; + prefix++; + } + return (*prefix == '\0' ? str : NULL); } #if defined(NO_MMAP) || defined(USE_WIN32_MMAP) -- 1.9.0.138.g2de3478.dirty