"John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx> > > There are two functions that have very similar logic of finding a header > value. find_commit_header, and find_header. We can conslidate the logic > by using find_commit_header and replacing the logic in find_header. > > Introduce a new function find_header_max, which is equivalent to > find_commit_header except it takes a len parameter that determines how > many bytes to read. find_commit_header can then call find_header_max > with 0 as the len. find_header_max() is not the name of the function that finds the largest header? That is misleading. <git-compat-util.h> defines a few helper functions that take a counted string, and they are named with _mem() suffix after the name of their NUL-terminated counterparts (if exists). skip_prefix() has skip_prefix_mem(), strip_suffix() has strip_suffix_mem(). find_header_mem() or something along that line, perhaps? > diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c > index a348f085b2b..2ed115e04a0 100644 > --- a/commit.c > +++ b/commit.c > @@ -1631,12 +1631,14 @@ struct commit_list **commit_list_append(struct commit *commit, > return &new_commit->next; > } > > -const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key, size_t *out_len) > +const char *find_header_max(const char *msg, const char *key, > + size_t len, > + size_t *out_len) If <len> is meant to be the length part of <ptr,len> pair, we should have it immediately after the <ptr> parameter. find_header_mem(const char *msg, size_t len, const char *key, size_t *out_len) That makes it clear to the readers that <msg, len> are close friends. Also, I have a feeling that ... > { > int key_len = strlen(key); > const char *line = msg; > > - while (line) { > + while (line && (len == 0 || line < msg + len)) { ... we do not want this special casing of "if !len". By making the caller responsible to _always_ supply the length of msg, we can lose the conditional. > const char *eol = strchrnul(line, '\n'); > > if (line == eol) > @@ -1653,6 +1655,10 @@ const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key, size_t *out_len > return NULL; > } > > +const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key, size_t *out_len) > +{ > + return find_header_max(msg, key, 0, out_len); I.e. find_header_mem(msg, strlen(msg), key, out_len); > diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c > index 9f4a0b816cf..b69ead8dcda 100644 > --- a/builtin/receive-pack.c > +++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c > @@ -581,32 +581,19 @@ static char *prepare_push_cert_nonce(const char *path, timestamp_t stamp) > return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL); > } > > -/* > - * NEEDSWORK: reuse find_commit_header() from jk/commit-author-parsing > - * after dropping "_commit" from its name and possibly moving it out > - * of commit.c > - */ > static char *find_header(const char *msg, size_t len, const char *key, > const char **next_line) > { > + size_t out_len; > + const char *val = find_header_max(msg, key, len, &out_len); > + > + if (val == NULL) > + return NULL; > + > + if (next_line) > + *next_line = val + out_len + 1; > + > + return xmemdupz(val, out_len); > } Yup, something along that line. Note that find_header() does make it clear that the <msg, len> parameters form a pair. We want to do the same for the new helper.