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Re: [RFC/PATCH V2] branch.c: replace git_config with git_config_get_string

From: Eric Sunshine <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:01:44

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Tanay Abhra [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Use git_config_get_string instead of git_config to take advantage of
the config hash-table api which provides a cleaner control flow.

Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <redacted>
---
 branch.c | 24 ++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index 660097b..c9a2a0d 100644
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -140,33 +140,25 @@ static int setup_tracking(const char *new_ref, const char *orig_ref,
        return 0;
 }

-struct branch_desc_cb {
+struct branch_desc {
        const char *config_name;
        const char *value;
 };
What is the purpose of retaining this structure? Following your
changes, it is never used outside of read_branch_desc(), and
'config_name' and 'value' would be more naturally declared as
variables local to that function.
-static int read_branch_desc_cb(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
-{
-       struct branch_desc_cb *desc = cb;
-       if (strcmp(desc->config_name, var))
-               return 0;
-       free((char *)desc->value);
-       return git_config_string(&desc->value, var, value);
-}
-
 int read_branch_desc(struct strbuf *buf, const char *branch_name)
 {
-       struct branch_desc_cb cb;
+       const char *value = NULL;
+       struct branch_desc desc;
        struct strbuf name = STRBUF_INIT;
        strbuf_addf(&name, "branch.%s.description", branch_name);
-       cb.config_name = name.buf;
-       cb.value = NULL;
-       if (git_config(read_branch_desc_cb, &cb) < 0) {
+       desc.config_name = name.buf;
+       desc.value = NULL;
+       git_config_get_string(desc.config_name, &value);
+       if (git_config_string(&desc.value, desc.config_name, value) < 0) {
Although it works in this case, it's somewhat ugly that you ignore the
return value of git_config_get_string(), and a person reading the code
has to spend extra time digging into git_config_string() to figure out
why this is safe. If might be clearer for future readers by rephrasing
like this:

    if (git_config_get_string(desc.config_name, &value) < 0 ||
        git_config_string(&desc.value, desc.config_name, value) < 0) {
                strbuf_release(&name);
                return -1;
        }
-       if (cb.value)
-               strbuf_addstr(buf, cb.value);
+       strbuf_addstr(buf, desc.value);
        strbuf_release(&name);
        return 0;
 }
--
1.9.0.GIT
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