From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:39:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/34] wt-status: release strbuf after use in wt_longstatus_print_tracking() Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <33aecb28-e930-f500-3452-3899d1116d9f@web.de> René Scharfe writes: > Am 06.09.2017 um 21:51 schrieb Junio C Hamano: >> Rene Scharfe writes: >> >>> If format_tracking_info() returns 0 only if it didn't touch its strbuf >>> parameter, so it's OK to exit early in that case. Clean up sb in the >>> other case. >> >> These two "if"s confuse me; perhaps the first one is not needed? > > Yes, removing it looks like the best way to make that sentence clearer. > Another would be to replace "only if" with "then". Either makes it understandable. Thanks.