Re: [PATCH 1/3] gitweb: Get rid of unnecessary check of $signoff

Namhyung Kim [off-list ref] writes:

If $signoff set to 1, the $line would be handled in
the if statement for the both cases. So the outer of
the conditional always sees the $signoff always set
to 0 and no need to check it. Thus we can finally get
rid of it.

While this may not change the behaviour of the code, I think that
only shows the original is broken.  You even have the hint left in
the context of your patch:

 		# print only one empty line
 		# do not print empty line after signoff
 		if ($line eq "") {
-			next if ($empty || $signoff);
+			next if ($empty);

Given this input:

	If $signoff is set to 1, ...
        ...
        rid of it.

	Signed-off-by: N K

        Signed-off-by: J C H

isn't the code trying (and failing) to remove the empty line between
the two S-o-b lines?

So something like this on top?  I renamed "$empty" which is unclear
what it means ("We just saw an empty line? What does the variable
want us to do?") to "$skip_blank_line" which more clearly instructs
us what to do.  If we see a blank line when it is set, we skip it.

 gitweb/gitweb.perl | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 7585e08..202286b 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl

@@ -4484,12 +4484,12 @@ sub git_print_log {
 	}
 
 	# print log
-	my $empty = 0;
+	my $skip_blank_line = 0;
 	foreach my $line (@$log) {
 		if ($line =~ m/^ *(signed[ \-]off[ \-]by[ :]|acked[ \-]by[ :]|cc[ :])/i) {
-			$empty = 0;
 			if (! $opts{'-remove_signoff'}) {
 				print "<span class=\"signoff\">" . esc_html($line) . "</span><br/>\n";
+				$skip_blank_line = 1;
 			}
 			next;
 		}

@@ -4497,10 +4497,10 @@ sub git_print_log {
 		# print only one empty line
 		# do not print empty line after signoff
 		if ($line eq "") {
-			next if ($empty);
-			$empty = 1;
+			next if ($skip_blank_line);
+			$skip_blank_line = 1;
 		} else {
-			$empty = 0;
+			$skip_blank_line = 0;
 		}
 
 		print format_log_line_html($line) . "<br/>\n";