On 6/25/2014 10:15 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
>> index 660097b..c9a2a0d 100644
>> --- a/branch.c
>> +++ b/branch.c
>> @@ -140,33 +140,25 @@ static int setup_tracking(const char *new_ref, const char *orig_ref,
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> -struct branch_desc_cb {
>> +struct branch_desc {
>> const char *config_name;
>> const char *value;
>> };
>
> What is the purpose of retaining this structure? Following your
> changes, it is never used outside of read_branch_desc(), and
> 'config_name' and 'value' would be more naturally declared as
> variables local to that function.
Done. :)
>
>> -static int read_branch_desc_cb(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
>> -{
>> - struct branch_desc_cb *desc = cb;
>> - if (strcmp(desc->config_name, var))
>> - return 0;
>> - free((char *)desc->value);
>> - return git_config_string(&desc->value, var, value);
>> -}
>> -
>> int read_branch_desc(struct strbuf *buf, const char *branch_name)
>> {
>> - struct branch_desc_cb cb;
>> + const char *value = NULL;
>> + struct branch_desc desc;
>> struct strbuf name = STRBUF_INIT;
>> strbuf_addf(&name, "branch.%s.description", branch_name);
>> - cb.config_name = name.buf;
>> - cb.value = NULL;
>> - if (git_config(read_branch_desc_cb, &cb) < 0) {
>> + desc.config_name = name.buf;
>> + desc.value = NULL;
>> + git_config_get_string(desc.config_name, &value);
>> + if (git_config_string(&desc.value, desc.config_name, value) < 0) {
>
> Although it works in this case, it's somewhat ugly that you ignore the
> return value of git_config_get_string(), and a person reading the code
> has to spend extra time digging into git_config_string() to figure out
> why this is safe. If might be clearer for future readers by rephrasing
> like this:
>
> if (git_config_get_string(desc.config_name, &value) < 0 ||
> git_config_string(&desc.value, desc.config_name, value) < 0) {
>
Noted, also didn't the old code leak desc.value as it was xstrduped
by git_config_string()? Thanks for the review.
>> strbuf_release(&name);
>> return -1;
>> }
>> - if (cb.value)
>> - strbuf_addstr(buf, cb.value);
>> + strbuf_addstr(buf, desc.value);
>> strbuf_release(&name);
>> return 0;
>> }
>> --
>> 1.9.0.GIT
>
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