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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2013, 21:31 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq38lndxae.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131220070449.GA29717@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>   /* 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?

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