Michael, Thank you for your remarks. > If you look at what skip_prefix() and starts_with() do, I think you will > find that you are doing too much work here. How about this one? const char *shortname = skip_prefix(remote, "refs/heads/"); int remote_is_branch = shortname != NULL; -- 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