From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:51:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Add and use skip_prefix_defval()
Message-ID: <xmqq38lqjbde.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131218162746.GA15334@sl4mmy.zerosphere.org>

"Kent R. Spillner" <kspillner@acm.org> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 09:53:48PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
>> This is a variant of skip_prefix() that returns a specied pointer
>> instead of NULL if no prefix is found. It's helpful to simplify
>> 
>>   if (starts_with(foo, "bar"))
>>     foo += 3;
>> 
>> into
>> 
>>   foo = skip_prefix_gently(foo, "bar", foo);
>
> Should this be skip_prefix_defval instead of skip_prefix_gently?

Yes.