Re: [PATCH 1/4] remote: use skip_prefix

> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 06:42:27PM +0100, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
>
> > 95b567c7 ("use skip_prefix to avoid repeating strings") transformed
> > calls using starts_with() and then skipping the length of the prefix to
> > skip_prefix() calls.  In remote.c there are a few calls like:
> >
> >   if (starts_with(foo, "bar"))
> >       foo += 3
> >
> > These calls weren't touched by the commit mentioned above, but can
> > benefit from the same treatment to avoid magic numbers.
>
> This is definitely an improvement, but I think we can actually go a step
> further here, and use parse_config_key. Like:

> diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
> index 21e4ec3..8d2c3ca 100644
> --- a/remote.c
> +++ b/remote.c
> @@ -318,15 +318,14 @@ static void read_branches_file(struct remote *remote)
>  static int handle_config(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
>  {
>  	const char *name;
> +	int namelen;
>  	const char *subkey;
>  	struct remote *remote;
>  	struct branch *branch;
> -	if (starts_with(key, "branch.")) {
> -		name = key + 7;
> -		subkey = strrchr(name, '.');
> -		if (!subkey)
> +	if (starts_with(key, "branch", &name, &namelen, &subkey)) {
> +		if (!name)
>  			return 0;
> -		branch = make_branch(name, subkey - name);
> +		branch = make_branch(name, namelen);
>  		if (!strcmp(subkey, ".remote")) {
>  			return git_config_string(&branch->remote_name, key, value);
>  		} else if (!strcmp(subkey, ".pushremote")) {
>
> and so on. The difference in lines of code isn't that great, but I think
> it makes the resulting code more obvious to read.
>
> -Peff