[PATCH v3 01/12] wt-status: avoid strbuf_split*()

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2025, 06:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20250803065304.3325286-2-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250803065304.3325286-1-gitster@pobox.com>

strbuf is a very good data structure to work with string data without having to worry about running past the end of the string, but strbuf_split() is a wrong API and an array of strbuf that the function produces is a wrong thing to use in general. You do not edit these N strings split out of a single strbuf simultaneously. Often it is much better off to split a string into string_list and work with the resulting strings.

wt-status.c:abbrev_oid_in_line() takes one line of rebase todo list (like "pick e813a0200a7121b97fec535f0d0b460b0a33356c title"), and for instructions that has an object name as the second token on the line, replace the object name with its unique abbreviation. After splitting these tokens out of a single line, no simultaneous edit on any of these pieces of string that takes advantage of strbuf API takes place. The final string is composed with strbuf API, but these split pieces are merely used as pieces of strings and there is no need for them to be stored in individual strbuf.

Instead, split the line into a string_list, and compose the final string using these pieces.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 wt-status.c | 31 ++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 454601afa1..a34dc144ee 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -1351,8 +1351,8 @@ static int split_commit_in_progress(struct wt_status *s)
  */
 static void abbrev_oid_in_line(struct strbuf *line)
 {
-	struct strbuf **split;
-	int i;
+	struct string_list split = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
+	struct object_id oid;
 
 	if (starts_with(line->buf, "exec ") ||
 	    starts_with(line->buf, "x ") ||
@@ -1360,26 +1360,15 @@ static void abbrev_oid_in_line(struct strbuf *line)
 	    starts_with(line->buf, "l "))
 		return;
 
-	split = strbuf_split_max(line, ' ', 3);
-	if (split[0] && split[1]) {
-		struct object_id oid;
-
-		/*
-		 * strbuf_split_max left a space. Trim it and re-add
-		 * it after abbreviation.
-		 */
-		strbuf_trim(split[1]);
-		if (!repo_get_oid(the_repository, split[1]->buf, &oid)) {
-			strbuf_reset(split[1]);
-			strbuf_add_unique_abbrev(split[1], &oid,
-						 DEFAULT_ABBREV);
-			strbuf_addch(split[1], ' ');
-			strbuf_reset(line);
-			for (i = 0; split[i]; i++)
-				strbuf_addbuf(line, split[i]);
-		}
+	if ((2 <= string_list_split(&split, line->buf, " ", 2)) &&
+	    !repo_get_oid(the_repository, split.items[1].string, &oid)) {
+		strbuf_reset(line);
+		strbuf_addf(line, "%s ", split.items[0].string);
+		strbuf_add_unique_abbrev(line, &oid, DEFAULT_ABBREV);
+		for (size_t i = 2; i < split.nr; i++)
+			strbuf_addf(line, " %s", split.items[i].string);
 	}
-	strbuf_list_free(split);
+	string_list_clear(&split, 0);
 }
 
 static int read_rebase_todolist(const char *fname, struct string_list *lines)

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