Thanks for the reply, I was unable to get git send-email working. Now its working, I'll resend the patch. I ran all the tests, they are working properly. About the comment, I meant, there is a similar function strbuf.c:starts_with() which does the exact same job, but it returns 0 or 1. I just changed it to return a (const char *) accordingly. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/26/2014 05:46 PM, Faiz Kothari wrote: >> I am Faiz Kothari, I am a GSoC aspirant and want to contribute to git. >> I am submitting the patch in reponse to Microproject 1, >> rewrite git-compat-util.h:skip_prefix() as a loop. >> >> Signed-off-by: Faiz Kothari <faiz.off93@xxxxxxxxx> > > The subject of your email plus the part above the "---" line will be > taken directly to be used as the commit message. So it should not > include information that is inappropriate for a commit message. > > You can put such information directly below the "---" line. > > Please also see my comments below. > >> --- >> git-compat-util.h | 7 +++++-- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h >> index cbd86c3..bb2582a 100644 >> --- a/git-compat-util.h >> +++ b/git-compat-util.h >> @@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ extern int suffixcmp(const char *str, const char >> *suffix); >> >> static inline const char *skip_prefix(const char *str, const char >> *prefix) > > The line above seems to have been broken by your email program. It is > important for efficiency reasons that patches be readable directly out > of emails (e.g., by using "git am"). Please practice by sending the > patch to yourself different ways until "git am" works on it correctly. > >> { >> - size_t len = strlen(prefix); >> - return strncmp(str, prefix, len) ? NULL : str + len; >> + for (; ; str++, prefix++) >> + if (!*prefix) >> + return str;//code same as strbuf.c:starts_with() > > We don't use "//" for comments, and please space things out the way > other code does it. But actually, IMO this particular comment doesn't > really belong permanently in the code. It rather belongs in the commit > message, or in the discussion (under the "---"), or maybe it should be > taken as an indication of a deeper problem (see below). > >> + else if (*str != *prefix) >> + return NULL; >> } >> >> #if defined(NO_MMAP) || defined(USE_WIN32_MMAP) >> > > The code itself looks correct. > > But, considering your comment, would it be appropriate for one of the > functions to call the other? > > Michael > > -- > Michael Haggerty > mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html