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[PATCH] pack-write: simplify index_pack_lockfile using skip_prefix() and xstrfmt()

From
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Aug 30, 2014, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID
<54019DA7.2050002@web.de>

Get rid of magic string length constants by using skip_prefix() instead of memcmp() and use xstrfmt() for building a string instead of a PATH_MAX-sized buffer, snprintf() and xstrdup().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
 pack-write.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pack-write.c b/pack-write.c
index 9ccf804..33293ce 100644
--- a/pack-write.c
+++ b/pack-write.c
@@ -288,13 +288,12 @@ char *index_pack_lockfile(int ip_out)
 	 * case, we need it to remove the corresponding .keep file
 	 * later on.  If we don't get that then tough luck with it.
 	 */
-	if (read_in_full(ip_out, packname, 46) == 46 && packname[45] == '\n' &&
-	    memcmp(packname, "keep\t", 5) == 0) {
-		char path[PATH_MAX];
+	if (read_in_full(ip_out, packname, 46) == 46 && packname[45] == '\n') {
+		const char *name;
 		packname[45] = 0;
-		snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/pack/pack-%s.keep",
-			 get_object_directory(), packname + 5);
-		return xstrdup(path);
+		if (skip_prefix(packname, "keep\t", &name))
+			return xstrfmt("%s/pack/pack-%s.keep",
+				       get_object_directory(), name);
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
-- 
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