# [PATCH] sanitize --abbrev option for describe

1 messages from 2006-11-02 to 2006-11-02. Participants: Han-Wen Nienhuys.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43520

## Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2006-11-02 01:15

Subject: [PATCH] sanitize --abbrev option for describe
Message-ID: <eibgqu$rsh$1@sea.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/eibgqu%24rsh%241%40sea.gmane.org

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Hi,

the --abbrev option doesn't allow a 40 digit SHA1 output.

The following patch fixes this, and uses a IMHO more logical way to 
compute the abbrev parameter, so --abbrev=52 will still yield a 40 digit 
SHA1.


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  Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen


commit 62ab49fb3a050cb2a4c96fa0ab8064742544369b
Author: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@lilypond.org>
Date:   Thu Nov 2 02:12:11 2006 +0100

    use constant variable for storing "--abbrev=".  Use 40 and
    MINIMUM_ABBREV as bounds for --abbrev= argument.

diff --git a/describe.c b/describe.c
index ab192f8..973520c 100644
--- a/describe.c
+++ b/describe.c
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, in
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+	char const *abbrev_option = "--abbrev=";
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
@@ -152,10 +153,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			all = 1;
 		else if (!strcmp(arg, "--tags"))
 			tags = 1;
-		else if (!strncmp(arg, "--abbrev=", 9)) {
-			abbrev = strtoul(arg + 9, NULL, 10);
-			if (abbrev < MINIMUM_ABBREV || 40 < abbrev)
-				abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV;
+		else if (!strncmp(arg, abbrev_option, strlen (abbrev_option))) {
+			abbrev = strtoul(arg + strlen (abbrev_option), NULL, 10);
+			abbrev = MAX(MINIMUM_ABBREV, abbrev);
+			abbrev = MIN(40, abbrev);
 		}
 		else
 			usage(describe_usage);

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