On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:18:48PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > While I'm thinking about it, here are patches to do that. The third one > > I'd probably squash into yours (after ordering it to the end). > > > > [1/3]: parse_config_key: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with > > [2/3]: parse_config_key: allow matching single-level config > > [3/3]: parse_hide_refs_config: tell parse_config_key we don't want a subsection > > While you were doing that, I was grepping the call sites for > parse_config_key() and made sure that all of them are OK when fed > two level names. Most of them follow this pattern: > > if (parse_config_key(k, "diff", &name, &namelen, &type) || !name) > return -1; > > and ones that do not immediately check !name does either eventually > do so or have separate codepaths for handlihng two- and three-level > names. Yeah, I did that, too. :) I don't think there are any other sites to convert. And I don't think we can make the "!name" case easier (because some call-sites do want to handle both types). And it's not like it gets much easier anyway (unlike the opposite case, you _do_ need to declare the extra variables. -Peff