Hi Junio, On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Your patch introduces a similar loop with similar (but different) > purpose: > > while (*p == '\n') > p++; > > which would have been helped if there were a helper with an > opposite function, i.e. > > p = strcchrnul(p, '\n'); > > i.e. "give me the pointer to the first byte that is not '\n', or EOS". > > But there is no such thing. Although p += strcspn(p, "\n") is a > possibility, that somehow feels a bit odd. And that is why I did > not hint any existing function and said "might want to find". Sure. And strcspn() is less efficient than the loop if you already know that the second parameter contains only a single character. > HOWEVER. > > Stepping back a bit, I think what we actually want is > > p = skip_blank_lines(p); > > that skips any and all blank lines, including an empty line that > consists of all whitespace. My original aim was to make find_commit_subject() consistent with the pretty-printing machinery. I failed to realize that skip_blank_lines() does more than skipping empty lines, so let me re-roll the patch. Ciao, Dscho -- 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