An earlier patch rewrote `split_symref_update()` to add a copy of a string to a string list instead of adding the original string. That was so that the original string could be freed in a later patch, but it is also conceptually cleaner, since now all calls to `string_list_insert()` and `string_list_append()` add `update->refname`. --- Except a literal "HEAD" is added in `split_head_update()`. Restructure `split_head_update()` in the same way as the earlier patch did for `split_symref_update()`. This does not correct any practical problem, but makes things conceptually cleaner. The downside is a call to `string_list_has_string()`, which should be relatively cheap. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> --- refs/files-backend.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c index 03df00275..926f87b94 100644 --- a/refs/files-backend.c +++ b/refs/files-backend.c @@ -2589,11 +2589,10 @@ static int split_head_update(struct ref_update *update, /* * First make sure that HEAD is not already in the - * transaction. This insertion is O(N) in the transaction + * transaction. This check is O(lg N) in the transaction * size, but it happens at most once per transaction. */ - item = string_list_insert(affected_refnames, "HEAD"); - if (item->util) { + if (string_list_has_string(affected_refnames, "HEAD")) { /* An entry already existed */ strbuf_addf(err, "multiple updates for 'HEAD' (including one " @@ -2608,6 +2607,14 @@ static int split_head_update(struct ref_update *update, update->new_oid.hash, update->old_oid.hash, update->msg); + /* + * Add "HEAD". This insertion is O(N) in the transaction + * size, but it happens at most once per transaction. + * Add new_update->refname instead of a literal "HEAD". + */ + if (strcmp(new_update->refname, "HEAD")) + BUG("%s unexpectedly not 'HEAD'", new_update->refname); + item = string_list_insert(affected_refnames, new_update->refname); item->util = new_update; return 0; -- 2.14.1.460.g848a19d64