Re: [PATCH] describe: use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes

> On 18 Jan 2018, at 23:40, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:40 PM, René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> wrote:
>> Am 16.01.2018 um 18:11 schrieb SZEDER Gábor:
>>> Unfortunately, most of the changes coming from 'strbuf.cocci' don't
>>> make any sense, they appear to be the mis-application of the "use
>>> strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() to add a single string" rule:
>>> 
>>>   -             strbuf_addf(&sb_repo, "%d", counter);
>>>   +             strbuf_addstr(&sb_repo, counter);
>>> 
>>> It seems that those rules need some refinement, but I have no idea
>>> about Coccinelle and this is not the time for me to dig deeper.
>>> 
>>> What makes all this weird is that running 'make coccicheck' on my own
>>> machine doesn't produce any of these additional proposed changes, just
>>> like at René's.  Can it be related to differing Coccinelle versions?
>>> Travis CI installs 1.0.0~rc19.deb-3; I have 1.0.4.deb-2.
>> 
>> The version difference may explain it, but I couldn't find a matching
>> bugfix in http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/distrib/changes.html when I just
>> skimmed it.  I wonder if the following patch could make a difference:
> 
> Yes, it does, now all those nonsense suggestions are gone on Travis CI.
> 
>  https://travis-ci.org/szeder/git/jobs/330572425#L713
> 
> Those "memmove() -> MOVE_ARRAY" suggestions are still there, of course.