# [PATCH] git-tar-tree: cleanup trailer writing

1 messages from 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27. Participants: Rene Scharfe.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/740

## Rene Scharfe, 2005-05-27 21:16

Subject: [PATCH] git-tar-tree: cleanup trailer writing
Message-ID: <20050527211624.GA17478@lsrfire.ath.cx>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050527211624.GA17478%40lsrfire.ath.cx

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Replace open-coded variants of get_record().

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>

Index: tar-tree.c
===================================================================
--- ba1de5878d8e0cd1c7c728379e033ea6bf8567e5/tar-tree.c  (mode:100644)
+++ fa5c736eeabbead4a4c024051d104930d836092a/tar-tree.c  (mode:100644)
@@ -73,16 +73,13 @@
  */
 static void write_trailer(void)
 {
-	memset(block + offset, 0, RECORDSIZE);
-	offset += RECORDSIZE;
+	get_record();
 	write_if_needed();
-	memset(block + offset, 0, RECORDSIZE);
-	offset += RECORDSIZE;
+	get_record();
 	write_if_needed();
-	if (offset) {
-		memset(block + offset, 0, BLOCKSIZE - offset);
-		reliable_write(block, BLOCKSIZE);
-		offset = 0;
+	while (offset) {
+		get_record();
+		write_if_needed();
 	}
 }
 

```