On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 04:36:51PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > Use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with() and strcmp() when parsing > 'git update-ref's stdin to avoid a couple of magic numbers. I was coincidentally looking at this the other day also noticed these. Thanks for cleaning it up (and your patch looks obviously correct). I also found it funny that we read the whole input into a buffer and parse from there, rather than using strbuf_getline(). But that's intentional due to e23d84350a (update-ref --stdin: read the whole input at once, 2014-04-07). I think the line-oriented protocol actually can be easily read like that, but the "-z" format ends up having to do awkward reads. Anyway, sort of a tangent, but I didn't want anybody else looking at this having to dig down the same hole I did. ;) -Peff