From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:35:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 2/4] receive-pack: implement advertising and receiving push options Message-ID: <20160714213534.GB20645@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <20160714212454.16643-1-sbeller@google.com> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:24:54PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > # interdiff to v5: > [...giant deletion...] Much nicer. :) > +static struct string_list *read_push_options(void) > +{ > + struct string_list *ret = xmalloc(sizeof(*ret)); This struck me as a little non-idiomatic for our code base. The usual technique is to take a pointer to a stack-allocated struct, and write into that. I guess that here: > @@ -1774,6 +1806,9 @@ int cmd_receive_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > const char *unpack_status = NULL; > struct string_list *push_options = NULL; > > + if (use_push_options) > + push_options = read_push_options(); > + You will want to later check whether push_options is NULL. But you can also just check push_options.nr. -Peff