It is not a good practice to prefer performance over readability in
something as performance uncritical as finding the trailing slash
of argv[0].
So avoid head-scratching by making the loop user-readable, and not
hyper-performance-optimized.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>
---
The original version threatened to cause eye-cancer with this
developer, so that I had to run to the physician real quick.
That was quite hard, as no ophtalmologist seemed to be in
office at 10:30pm. But I found a real good witch, and she
diagnozed me as healthy.
git.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index a647741..2fd74c4 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -427,9 +427,8 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
* name, and the dirname as the default exec_path
* if we don't have anything better.
*/
- do
- --slash;
- while (cmd <= slash && !is_dir_sep(*slash));
+ while (cmd <= slash && !is_dir_sep(*slash))
+ slash--;
if (slash < cmd) {
cmd = lookup_program_in_path(cmd);
for (slash = (char *)cmd + strlen(cmd) - 1;--
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