On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > +const char *get_super_prefix(void) > +{ > + if (!super_prefix) > + super_prefix = getenv(GIT_SUPER_PREFIX_ENVIRONMENT); > + return super_prefix; > +} > + As said earlier, is the following a valid thought: > The getenv() function returns a pointer to the value in the > environment, or NULL if there is no match. > So in case this is not set (when e.g. the user did not specify the > super prefix), we would probe it a couple of times. > The caching effect only occurs when the string is set. So this looks > like we save repetitive calls, but we do not always do that. > > + if (get_super_prefix()) { > + die("%s doesn't support --super-prefix", argv[0]); > + } > + Nit: no braces, please.