Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> fwrite(final_buf.buf, 1, final_buf.len, stdout);
>> + if (final_buf.len)
>> + putchar('\n');
>
> While we are introducing a conditional, let's drop the useless
> fwrite of 0-byte while we are at it [*1*], i.e.
>
> if (final_buf.len && !omit_empty_lines) {
Of course, that's a typo for "||"; if it is not empty, we'd emit no
matter what, and if omit_empty is not given, we'd emit whether it is
empty or not.
> fwrite(final_buf.buf, 1, final_buf.len, stdout);
> putchar('\n');
> }
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> [Footnote]
>
> *1* "While we are at it", the existing code tempts me to drop fwrite
> and replace it with something along the lines of...
>
> printf("%*s\n", count, buf)
>
> but I refrained from doing so. An enhancement patch like this
> is not a place to "improve" existing code (which should be done
> as a separate patch).
