On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 10:43:54PM +0800, ZheNing Hu wrote: > > What I meant was that we should get rid of show_ref_array_items(), as > > well, and just use format_ref_array_item() everywhere. This whole > > wrapper is only saving us a few lines, and it makes it harder to see > > what the function is doing. Likewise for pretty-print ref. But I dunno. > > Maybe that is all going too far. > > > > Ok... so you mean we just use a loop like in branch.c, and get rid of > show_ref_array_items() and show_ref_array_item(). > (We can still use the optimization of reuse bufs) Yes, something like this: diff --git a/builtin/for-each-ref.c b/builtin/for-each-ref.c index cb9c81a046..55297fe297 100644 --- a/builtin/for-each-ref.c +++ b/builtin/for-each-ref.c @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ int cmd_for_each_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) struct ref_array array; struct ref_filter filter; struct ref_format format = REF_FORMAT_INIT; + struct strbuf output = STRBUF_INIT; + struct strbuf err = STRBUF_INIT; struct option opts[] = { OPT_BIT('s', "shell", &format.quote_style, @@ -80,8 +82,16 @@ int cmd_for_each_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (!maxcount || array.nr < maxcount) maxcount = array.nr; - for (i = 0; i < maxcount; i++) - show_ref_array_item(array.items[i], &format); + + for (i = 0; i < maxcount; i++) { + strbuf_reset(&output); + if (format_ref_array_item(array.items[i], &format, &output, &err)) + die("%s", err.buf); + fwrite(output.buf, 1, output.len, stdout); + putchar('\n'); + } + + strbuf_release(&output); ref_array_clear(&array); return 0; } It is dropping a few lines by assuming that the error buf is only touched when we return an error (which IMHO is a reasonable assumption to make). -Peff