Replace with skip_prefix(), which uses the inbuilt function strcmp() to compare. Other Places were this can be implemented: commit.c : line 1117 commit.c : line 1197 Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> --- commit.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c index 6bf4fe0..1e181cf 100644 --- a/commit.c +++ b/commit.c @@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ static void record_author_date(struct author_date_slab *author_date, char *buffer = NULL; struct ident_split ident; char *date_end; + char *flag_sp; /* stores return value of skip_prefix() */ unsigned long date; if (!commit->buffer) { @@ -566,7 +567,7 @@ static void record_author_date(struct author_date_slab *author_date, buf; buf = line_end + 1) { line_end = strchrnul(buf, '\n'); - if (!starts_with(buf, "author ")) { + if ((flag_sp = skip_prefix(buf, "author ")) == NULL) { if (!line_end[0] || line_end[1] == '\n') return; /* end of header */ continue; -- 1.9.0.138.g2de3478 -- 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