Re: [PATCH] Use "git_config_string" to simplify "remote.c" code in "handle_config"

Signed-off-by: David Bryson <redacted>

I tried to keep with the naming/coding conventions that I found in
remote.c.  Feedback welcome.

---
 remote.c |   19 ++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 3f3c789..893a739 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c

@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ static int handle_config(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
 {
 	const char *name;
 	const char *subkey;
+	const char *v;

 	struct remote *remote;
 	struct branch *branch;
 	if (!prefixcmp(key, "branch.")) {

@@ -314,15 +315,15 @@ static int handle_config(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
 			return 0;
 		branch = make_branch(name, subkey - name);
 		if (!strcmp(subkey, ".remote")) {
-			if (!value)
-				return config_error_nonbool(key);
-			branch->remote_name = xstrdup(value);
+			if (git_config_string(&v, key, value) ) 
+				return -1;
+			branch->remote_name = v;
 			if (branch == current_branch)
 				default_remote_name = branch->remote_name;
 		} else if (!strcmp(subkey, ".merge")) {
-			if (!value)
-				return config_error_nonbool(key);
-			add_merge(branch, xstrdup(value));
+			if (git_config_string(&v, key, value )) 
+				return 	-1;
+			add_merge(branch, v);
 		}
 		return 0;
 	}

@@ -334,9 +335,9 @@ static int handle_config(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
 			return 0;
 		rewrite = make_rewrite(name, subkey - name);
 		if (!strcmp(subkey, ".insteadof")) {
-			if (!value)
-				return config_error_nonbool(key);
-			add_instead_of(rewrite, xstrdup(value));
+			if (git_config_string(&v, key, value )) 
+				return 	-1;
+			add_instead_of(rewrite, v);
 		}
 	}
 	if (prefixcmp(key,  "remote."))