Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  commit: discard index after setting up partial commit
  filter-branch: handle filenames that need quoting
  diff: Fix miscounting of --check output
  hg-to-git: fix parent analysis
  mailinfo: feed only one line to handle_filter() for QP input
  diff.c: add "const" qualifier to "char *cmd" member of "struct ll_diff_driver"
  Add "const" qualifier to "char *excludes_file".
  Add "const" qualifier to "char *editor_program".
  Add "const" qualifier to "char *pager_program".
  config: add 'git_config_string' to refactor string config variables.
  diff.c: remove useless check for value != NULL
  fast-import: check return value from unpack_entry()
  Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones
  diff.c: replace a 'strdup' with 'xstrdup'.
  diff.c: fixup garding of config parser from value=NULL

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 3e72778e94..ad47dc34f0 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -309,6 +309,14 @@ int git_config_bool(const char *name, const char *value)
 	return git_config_int(name, value) != 0;
 }
 
+int git_config_string(const char **dest, const char *var, const char *value)
+{
+	if (!value)
+		return config_error_nonbool(var);
+	*dest = xstrdup(value);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int git_default_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 {
 	/* This needs a better name */
@@ -421,46 +429,25 @@ int git_default_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	if (!strcmp(var, "i18n.commitencoding")) {
-		if (!value)
-			return config_error_nonbool(var);
-		git_commit_encoding = xstrdup(value);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
-	if (!strcmp(var, "i18n.logoutputencoding")) {
-		if (!value)
-			return config_error_nonbool(var);
-		git_log_output_encoding = xstrdup(value);
-		return 0;
-	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "i18n.commitencoding"))
+		return git_config_string(&git_commit_encoding, var, value);
 
+	if (!strcmp(var, "i18n.logoutputencoding"))
+		return git_config_string(&git_log_output_encoding, var, value);
 
 	if (!strcmp(var, "pager.color") || !strcmp(var, "color.pager")) {
 		pager_use_color = git_config_bool(var,value);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	if (!strcmp(var, "core.pager")) {
-		if (!value)
-			return config_error_nonbool(var);
-		pager_program = xstrdup(value);
-		return 0;
-	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.pager"))
+		return git_config_string(&pager_program, var, value);
 
-	if (!strcmp(var, "core.editor")) {
-		if (!value)
-			return config_error_nonbool(var);
-		editor_program = xstrdup(value);
-		return 0;
-	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.editor"))
+		return git_config_string(&editor_program, var, value);
 
-	if (!strcmp(var, "core.excludesfile")) {
-		if (!value)
-			return config_error_nonbool(var);
-		excludes_file = xstrdup(value);
-		return 0;
-	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.excludesfile"))
+		return git_config_string(&excludes_file, var, value);
 
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.whitespace")) {
 		if (!value)