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Re: [PATCH] branch: change install_branch_config() to use skip_prefix()

From
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Feb 27, 2014, 11:42 UTC
Message-ID
<530F248B.6030506@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To
<530F1DED.50308@yandex.ru>
Dmitry,
Thanks for your patch.  Please see my comments below.
On 02/27/2014 12:13 PM, Dmitry S. Dolzhenko wrote:
> Change install_branch_config() function to use skip_prefix()
> for getting short name of remote branch.
English tweak suggestion:

Change THE install_branch_config() function to use skip_prefix() for getting THE short name of THE remote branch.

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> Signed-off-by: Dmitry S. Dolzhenko <dmitrys.dolzhenko@yandex.ru>
> ---
>  branch.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
> index 723a36b..310749b 100644
> --- a/branch.c
> +++ b/branch.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
>  #include "remote.h"
>  #include "commit.h"
>  
> +static const char refs_heads_prefix[] = "refs/heads/";
> +
>  struct tracking {
>  	struct refspec spec;
>  	char *src;
> @@ -49,8 +51,8 @@ static int should_setup_rebase(const char *origin)
>  
>  void install_branch_config(int flag, const char *local, const char *origin, const char *remote)
>  {
> -	const char *shortname = remote + 11;
> -	int remote_is_branch = starts_with(remote, "refs/heads/");
> +	const char *shortname = skip_prefix(remote, refs_heads_prefix);
> +	int remote_is_branch = starts_with(remote, refs_heads_prefix);
>  	struct strbuf key = STRBUF_INIT;
>  	int rebasing = should_setup_rebase(origin);
>  
> 

If you look at what skip_prefix() and starts_with() do, I think you will find that you are doing too much work here.

Michael
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  1. branch: change install_branch_config() to use skip_prefix()Dmitry S. Dolzhenko, Feb 27, 2014
  2. Michael HaggertyFeb 27, 2014
  3. David KastrupFeb 27, 2014
  4. Dmitry S. DolzhenkoFeb 27, 2014

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