From: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] commit: record buffer length in cache Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:33:49 -0400 > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 01:27:13AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > >> > I find the above strange. I would have done something like: >> > >> > - set_commit_buffer(commit, strbuf_detach(&msg, NULL)); >> > + size_t size; >> > + char *buf = strbuf_detach(&msg, &size); >> > + set_commit_buffer(commit, buf, size); >> >> It is a little strange. You can't do: >> >> set_commit_buffer(commit, strbuf_detach(&msg, NULL), msg.len); >> >> because the second argument resets msg.len as a side effect. Doing it >> your way is longer, but perhaps is a bit more canonical. In general, one >> should call strbuf_detach to ensure that the buffer is allocated (and >> does not point to slopbuf). That's guaranteed here, because we just put >> contents into the buffer, but it's probably more hygienic to use the >> more verbose form. > > I was trying to avoid cluttering up the function with the extra variable > definitions. I ended up with the change below, which I think is clear, > correct, and pushes the complexity outside of the function. Yeah, great! > diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c > index cde19eb..53f43ab 100644 > --- a/builtin/blame.c > +++ b/builtin/blame.c > @@ -2266,6 +2266,18 @@ static void append_merge_parents(struct commit_list **tail) > } > > /* > + * This isn't as simple as passing sb->buf and sb->len, because we > + * want to transfer ownership of the buffer to the commit (so we > + * must use detach). > + */ > +static void set_commit_buffer_from_strbuf(struct commit *c, struct strbuf *sb) > +{ > + size_t len; > + void *buf = strbuf_detach(sb, &len); > + set_commit_buffer(c, buf, len); > +} > + > +/* > * Prepare a dummy commit that represents the work tree (or staged) item. > * Note that annotating work tree item never works in the reverse. > */ > @@ -2313,7 +2325,7 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct diff_options *opt, > ident, ident, path, > (!contents_from ? path : > (!strcmp(contents_from, "-") ? "standard input" : contents_from))); > - set_commit_buffer(commit, strbuf_detach(&msg, NULL)); > + set_commit_buffer_from_strbuf(commit, &msg); > > if (!contents_from || strcmp("-", contents_from)) { > struct stat st; Thanks, Christian. -- 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