Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 03:45:01PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> In other words, an alternative fix would be >> >> if (*path == '.' && path[1] == '/') { >> ... >> } >> >> which would not require passing in 'len' or switching to index-based >> arithmetic. I think I prefer it. What do you think? > > Yes, I think that approach is much nicer. I think you could even use > skip_prefix. Unfortunately you have to play a few games with const-ness, > but I think the resulting signature for cleanup_path() is an > improvement: Ooh! For what it's worth, if you add a commit message with Thomas's Reported-by then this lgtm. Thanks, Jonathan > diff --git a/path.c b/path.c > index 00ec04e7a5..2e09a7bce0 100644 > --- a/path.c > +++ b/path.c > @@ -34,11 +34,10 @@ static struct strbuf *get_pathname(void) > return sb; > } > > -static char *cleanup_path(char *path) > +static const char *cleanup_path(const char *path) > { > /* Clean it up */ > - if (!memcmp(path, "./", 2)) { > - path += 2; > + if (skip_prefix(path, "./", &path)) { > while (*path == '/') > path++; > } > @@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ static char *cleanup_path(char *path) > > static void strbuf_cleanup_path(struct strbuf *sb) > { > - char *path = cleanup_path(sb->buf); > + const char *path = cleanup_path(sb->buf); > if (path > sb->buf) > strbuf_remove(sb, 0, path - sb->buf); > } > @@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ char *mksnpath(char *buf, size_t n, const char *fmt, ...) > strlcpy(buf, bad_path, n); > return buf; > } > - return cleanup_path(buf); > + return (char *)cleanup_path(buf); > } > > static int dir_prefix(const char *buf, const char *dir)