It's bad manners and surprising and therefore error-prone.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
refs/files-backend.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index 0275c8d..af5a0e2 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -2282,13 +2282,15 @@ static int pack_if_possible_fn(struct ref_entry *entry, void *cb_data)
/*
* Remove empty parents, but spare refs/ and immediate subdirs.
- * Note: munges *refname.
*/
-static void try_remove_empty_parents(char *refname)
+static void try_remove_empty_parents(const char *refname)
{
+ struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
char *p, *q;
int i;
- p = refname;
+
+ strbuf_addstr(&buf, refname);
+ p = buf.buf;
for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { /* refs/{heads,tags,...}/ */
while (*p && *p != '/')
p++;
@@ -2296,8 +2298,7 @@ static void try_remove_empty_parents(char *refname)
while (*p == '/')
p++;
}
- for (q = p; *q; q++)
- ;
+ q = buf.buf + buf.len;
while (1) {
while (q > p && *q != '/')
q--;
@@ -2305,10 +2306,11 @@ static void try_remove_empty_parents(char *refname)
q--;
if (q == p)
break;
- *q = '\0';
- if (rmdir(git_path("%s", refname)))
+ strbuf_setlen(&buf, q - buf.buf);
+ if (rmdir(git_path("%s", buf.buf)))
break;
}
+ strbuf_release(&buf);
}
/* make sure nobody touched the ref, and unlink */
--
2.9.3