Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] builtin/remote.c: add and use a REF_STATES_INIT

> Use a new REF_STATES_INIT designated initializer instead of assigning
> to the "strdup_strings" member of the previously memzero()'d version
> of this struct.
>
> The pattern of assigning to "strdup_strings" dates back to
> 211c89682ee (Make git-remote a builtin, 2008-02-29) (when it was
> "strdup_paths"), i.e. long before we used anything like our current
> established *_INIT patterns consistently.
>
> Then in e61e0cc6b70 (builtin-remote: teach show to display remote
> HEAD, 2009-02-25) and e5dcbfd9ab7 (builtin-remote: new show output
> style for push refspecs, 2009-02-25) we added some more of these.
>
> As it turns out we only initialized this struct three times, all the
> other uses were of pointers to those initialized structs. So let's
> initialize it in those three places, skip the memset(), and pass those
> structs down appropriately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/remote.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/remote.c b/builtin/remote.c
> index 7f88e6ce9de..160dd954f74 100644
> --- a/builtin/remote.c
> +++ b/builtin/remote.c
> @@ -344,6 +344,14 @@ struct ref_states {
>  	int queried;
>  };
>  
> +#define REF_STATES_INIT { \
> +	.new_refs = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \
> +	.stale = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \
> +	.tracked = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \
> +	.heads = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \
> +	.push = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \
> +}

>  static int get_ref_states(const struct ref *remote_refs, struct ref_states *states)
>  {
>  	struct ref *fetch_map = NULL, **tail = &fetch_map;
> @@ -355,9 +363,6 @@ static int get_ref_states(const struct ref *remote_refs, struct ref_states *stat
>  			die(_("Could not get fetch map for refspec %s"),
>  				states->remote->fetch.raw[i]);
>  
> -	states->new_refs.strdup_strings = 1;
> -	states->tracked.strdup_strings = 1;
> -	states->stale.strdup_strings = 1;

> -	struct ref_states states;
> +	struct ref_states states = REF_STATES_INIT;
>  	struct string_list refs_to_prune = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
>  	struct string_list_item *item;
>  	const char *dangling_msg = dry_run
>  		? _(" %s will become dangling!")
>  		: _(" %s has become dangling!");
>  
> -	memset(&states, 0, sizeof(states));
>  	get_remote_ref_states(remote, &states, GET_REF_STATES);