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[JGIT PATCH] move the 'empty-line' check in RefDatabase#readLine down a bit to after we removed all the whitespaces.

From
Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de>
Date
Sep 1, 2009, 21:41 UTC
Message-ID
<358677.62716.qm@web27808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
This way we consistently return null regardless if the line is empty or if it does only contain whitespaces.
Signed-off-by: Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de>
---
 .../src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java      |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java
index 477dc62..acc835b 100644
--- a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java
+++ b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java
@@ -498,14 +498,15 @@ private static String readLine(final File file)
             throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
         final byte[] buf = NB.readFully(file, 4096);
         int n = buf.length;
-        if (n == 0)
-            return null;
         
         // remove trailing whitespaces
         while (n > 0 && Character.isWhitespace(buf[n - 1])) {
             n--;
         }
-        
+
+        if (n == 0)
+            return null;
+
         return RawParseUtils.decode(buf, 0, n);
     }
 
-- 
1.6.2.5


      
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