Re: [PATCH v9 4/6] notes.c: introduce '--separator=<paragraph-break>' option

From

Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>

Date

May 6, 2023, 09:12 UTC

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<20230506091205.57746-1-tenglong.tl@alibaba-inc.com>

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<xmqqsfcjbuud.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> +static char *separator = "\n";
>
>The only two ways this pointer gains a non-NULL value are with this
>initialization and parsing the command line "--separator=<value>"
>option with OPT_STRING().  Neither of them allocate new storage but
>points an existing string that we do not "own" (and cannot free)
>with the pointer.  So it probably is safer to make it a pointer to a
>const string, i.e.
>
>	static const char *separator = "\n";
>
>> @@ -213,65 +229,96 @@ static void write_note_data(struct note_data *d, struct object_id *oid)
>>  	}
>>  }
>>  
>> +static void insert_separator(struct strbuf *message, size_t pos)
>> +{
>> +	if (separator[strlen(separator) - 1] == '\n')
>> +		strbuf_addstr(message, separator);
>> +	else
>> +		strbuf_insertf(message, pos, "%s%s", separator, "\n");
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void concat_messages(struct note_data *d)
>> +{
>> +	struct strbuf msg = STRBUF_INIT;
>> +
>> +	size_t i;
>> +	for (i = 0; i < d->msg_nr ; i++) {
>
>Wrong placement of the blank line that separates the declaration and
>the first statement.

diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
index 8905298b..6eede305 100644
--- a/builtin/notes.c
+++ b/builtin/notes.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 #include "worktree.h"
 #include "write-or-die.h"
 
-static const char *separator = "\n";
+static char *separator = "\n";
 static const char * const git_notes_usage[] = {
        N_("git notes [--ref <notes-ref>] [list [<object>]]"),
        N_("git notes [--ref <notes-ref>] add [-f] [--allow-empty] [--separator=<paragraph-break>] [-m <msg> | -F <file> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>]"),
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ static void append_separator(struct strbuf *message)
 static void concat_messages(struct note_data *d)
 {
        struct strbuf msg = STRBUF_INIT;
-       size_t i;
 
+       size_t i;
        for (i = 0; i < d->msg_nr ; i++) {
                if (d->buf.len)
                        append_separator(&d->buf);