From: Ronnie Sahlberg Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:23:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/19] refs.c: return error string from ref_update_reject_duplicates on failure Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140425221248.GC9218@google.com> Thanks. Replaced with strbuf_addf() instead. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ronnie Sahlberg wrote: > >> --- a/refs.c >> +++ b/refs.c >> @@ -3393,6 +3393,7 @@ static int ref_update_compare(const void *r1, const void *r2) >> } >> >> static int ref_update_reject_duplicates(struct ref_update **updates, int n, >> + char **err, >> enum action_on_err onerr) >> { >> int i; >> @@ -3400,6 +3401,11 @@ static int ref_update_reject_duplicates(struct ref_update **updates, int n, >> if (!strcmp(updates[i - 1]->refname, updates[i]->refname)) { >> const char *str = >> "Multiple updates for ref '%s' not allowed."; >> + if (err) { >> + *err = xmalloc(PATH_MAX + 41); >> + snprintf(*err, PATH_MAX + 41, str, >> + updates[i]->refname); >> + } > > Same issues as the previous patch: it's too easy to get the buffer size > wrong when updating the message (or, worse, when making it > translatable). aprintf or a strbuf should work better. > > Otherwise seems sensible.