Helped-by: Eric Sunshine [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Goel <redacted>
---
Thanks a lot Eric for your valuable comments. Please let me know if there is
anything else which needs to be modified in this patch.
git-compat-util.h | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 614a5e9..550dce3 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ extern int suffixcmp(const char *str, const char *suffix);
static inline const char *skip_prefix(const char *str, const char *prefix)
{
- size_t len = strlen(prefix);
- return strncmp(str, prefix, len) ? NULL : str + len;
+ while (*prefix != '\0' && *str == *prefix) {
+ str++;
+ prefix++;
+ }
+ return (*prefix == '\0' ? str : NULL);
}
#if defined(NO_MMAP) || defined(USE_WIN32_MMAP)--
1.9.0.138.g2de3478.dirty