From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:00:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: Make use of the strip_suffix() helper method Message-ID: <20150709170054.GA15820@peff.net> In-Reply-To: <0000014e73738297-cce3a38b-a85d-40be-b501-354686c25eee-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:33:46PM +0000, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > @@ -174,19 +175,17 @@ static char *guess_dir_name(const char *repo, int is_bundle, int is_bare) > * Strip .{bundle,git}. > */ > if (is_bundle) { > - if (end - start > 7 && !strncmp(end - 7, ".bundle", 7)) > - end -= 7; > + strip_suffix(start, ".bundle", &len); > } else { > - if (end - start > 4 && !strncmp(end - 4, ".git", 4)) > - end -= 4; > + strip_suffix(start, ".git", &len); > } Yay, always glad to see complicated string handling like this go away. As the resulting conditional blocks are one-liners, I think you can drop the curly braces, which will match our usual style: if (is_bundle) strip_suffix(start, ".bundle", &len); else strip_suffix(start, ".git", &len); If you wanted to get really fancy, I think you could put a ternary operator in the middle of the strip_suffix call. That makes it clear that "len" is set in all code paths, but I think some people find ternary operators unreadable. :) > if (is_bare) { > struct strbuf result = STRBUF_INIT; > - strbuf_addf(&result, "%.*s.git", (int)(end - start), start); > + strbuf_addf(&result, "%.*s.git", len, start); > dir = strbuf_detach(&result, NULL); This one can also be simplified using xstrfmt to: if (is_bare) dir = xstrfmt("%.*s.git", len, start); Do we still need to cast "len" to an int to use it with "%.*" (it is defined by the standard as an int, not a size_t)? -Peff