Re: [PATCH] builtin/remote: remove postfixcmp() and use suffixcmp() instead

> I do not think anybody sane uses prefixcmp() or suffixcmp() for
> anything but checking with zero; in other words, I suspect that all
> uses of Xcmp() can be replaced with !!Xcmp(), so as a separate
> clean-up patch, we may at least want to make it clear that the
> callers should not expect anything but "does str have sfx as its
> suffix, yes or no?" by doing something like this:
>
>  int suffixcmp(const char *str, const char *suffix)
>  {
>  	int len = strlen(str), suflen = strlen(suffix);
>  	if (len < suflen)
>  		return -1;
>  	else
> -		return strcmp(str + len - suflen, suffix);
> +		return !!strcmp(str + len - suflen, suffix);
>  }
>
> I am not absolutely sure about doing the same to prefixcmp(),
> though. It could be used for ordering, even though no existing code
> seems to do so.