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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2014-06-18 15:47:50 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-06-20 10:44:45 -0700
commitae021d87911da4328157273df24779892cb51277 (patch)
treeaede96cb37d98c5675cd3f31322d4fb50f14d6e9 /alias.c
parent21a2d4ada52132e6b0b67f8e28aa4bcda416f7f2 (diff)
downloadgit-ae021d87911da4328157273df24779892cb51277.tar.gz
use skip_prefix to avoid magic numbers
It's a common idiom to match a prefix and then skip past it with a magic number, like: if (starts_with(foo, "bar")) foo += 3; This is easy to get wrong, since you have to count the prefix string yourself, and there's no compiler check if the string changes. We can use skip_prefix to avoid the magic numbers here. Note that some of these conversions could be much shorter. For example: if (starts_with(arg, "--foo=")) { bar = arg + 6; continue; } could become: if (skip_prefix(arg, "--foo=", &bar)) continue; However, I have left it as: if (skip_prefix(arg, "--foo=", &v)) { bar = v; continue; } to visually match nearby cases which need to actually process the string. Like: if (skip_prefix(arg, "--foo=", &v)) { bar = atoi(v); continue; } Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'alias.c')
-rw-r--r--alias.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/alias.c b/alias.c
index 5efc3d6986..758c867149 100644
--- a/alias.c
+++ b/alias.c
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ static char *alias_val;
static int alias_lookup_cb(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
{
- if (starts_with(k, "alias.") && !strcmp(k + 6, alias_key)) {
+ const char *name;
+ if (skip_prefix(k, "alias.", &name) && !strcmp(name, alias_key)) {
if (!v)
return config_error_nonbool(k);
alias_val = xstrdup(v);