Re: [PATCH 02/12] Convert starts_with() to skip_prefix() for option parsing

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>>   /* here we care if we saw the prefix, as above */
>>   if (parse_prefix(foo, prefix, &the_rest))
>>       ...
>>
>>   /*
>>    * and here we do not care, and just want to optionally strip the
>>    * prefix, and take the full value otherwise; we just have to ignore
>>    * the return value in this case.
>>    */
>>   parse_prefix(foo, prefix, &foo);
>
> Sounds fine.  I recall earlier somebody wanting to have a good name
> for this thing, and I think foo_gently is *not* it (the name is
> about adding a variant that does not die outright to foo that checks
> and dies if condition is not right).
>
>         starts_with(foo, prefix);
>         strip_prefix(foo, prefix, &foo);
>
> perhaps?