Instead of hard-coding the offset strlen("refs/heads/") to skip the prefix "refs/heads/" use the skip_prefix() function which is more communicative and verifies that the string actually starts with that prefix. Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> --- Sorry, missed a ';' in v4. The surprising thing I discovered in the TravisCI build for v4 was that apart from the 'Documentation' build the 'Static Analysis' build passed, with the following output, -- <snip> $ ci/run-static-analysis.sh GIT_VERSION = 2.13.1.1972.g6ced3f745 SPATCH contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci SPATCH result: contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci.patch SPATCH contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci SPATCH contrib/coccinelle/object_id.cocci SPATCH contrib/coccinelle/qsort.cocci SPATCH contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci SPATCH result: contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci.patch SPATCH contrib/coccinelle/swap.cocci SPATCH contrib/coccinelle/xstrdup_or_null.cocci The command "ci/run-static-analysis.sh" exited with 0. -- <snip> -- +Cc: SZEDER I guess static analysis tools make an assumption that the source code is syntactically valid for them to work correctly. So, I guess we should at least make sure the code 'compiles' before running the static analysis tool even though we don't build it completely. I'm not sure if it's a bad thing to run the static analysis on code that isn't syntactically valid, though. builtin/branch.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c index ca9d8abd0..196d5fe9b 100644 --- a/builtin/branch.c +++ b/builtin/branch.c @@ -462,6 +462,8 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int { struct strbuf oldref = STRBUF_INIT, newref = STRBUF_INIT, logmsg = STRBUF_INIT; struct strbuf oldsection = STRBUF_INIT, newsection = STRBUF_INIT; + const char *interpreted_oldname = NULL; + const char *interpreted_newname = NULL; int recovery = 0; int clobber_head_ok; @@ -493,6 +495,11 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int reject_rebase_or_bisect_branch(oldref.buf); + if (!skip_prefix(oldref.buf, "refs/heads/", &interpreted_oldname) || + !skip_prefix(newref.buf, "refs/heads/", &interpreted_newname)) { + die("BUG: expected prefix missing for refs"); + } + if (copy) strbuf_addf(&logmsg, "Branch: copied %s to %s", oldref.buf, newref.buf); @@ -508,10 +515,10 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int if (recovery) { if (copy) warning(_("Created a copy of a misnamed branch '%s'"), - oldref.buf + 11); + interpreted_oldname); else warning(_("Renamed a misnamed branch '%s' away"), - oldref.buf + 11); + interpreted_oldname); } if (!copy && @@ -520,9 +527,9 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int strbuf_release(&logmsg); - strbuf_addf(&oldsection, "branch.%s", oldref.buf + 11); + strbuf_addf(&oldsection, "branch.%s", interpreted_oldname); strbuf_release(&oldref); - strbuf_addf(&newsection, "branch.%s", newref.buf + 11); + strbuf_addf(&newsection, "branch.%s", interpreted_newname); strbuf_release(&newref); if (!copy && git_config_rename_section(oldsection.buf, newsection.buf) < 0) die(_("Branch is renamed, but update of config-file failed")); -- 2.15.0.531.g2ccb3012c