Re: [PATCH] config.c: remove unused git_config_key_is_valid()

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 02:56:03PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

The git_config_key_is_valid() function got left behind in a
refactoring in a9bcf6586d1 (alias: use the early config machinery to
expand aliases, 2017-06-14),

It previously had two users when it was added in 9e9de18f1ad (config:
silence warnings for command names with invalid keys, 2015-08-24), and
after 6a1e1bc0a15 (pager: use callbacks instead of configset,
2016-09-12) only one remained.

By removing it we can get rid of the "quiet" branches in this
function, as well as cases where "store_key" is NULL, for which there
are no other users.

This was the part that I paid most attention to. The only caller which
passed "quiet == 1" was git_config_key_is_valid(), which is gone. So all
of those "if (!quiet)" conditionals can go away. And the remaining
callers all pass a non-null pointer to store_key, so those guard can go
away too.

Out of the 5 callers of git_config_parse_key() only one needs to pass
a non-NULL "size_t *baselen_", so we could remove the third parameter
from the public interface. I did not find that potential
simplification to be worthwhile.

But the guard for baselen being NULL needs to stay, and it does. I agree
with you (and Peff) that stopping here is fine.

Thanks,
Taylor