Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] refs/debug: trim trailing LF from reflog message

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 9:16 AM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

The API promises to have only LF, not CRLF, at the end, so
strbuf_trim_trailing_newline() is a bit overkill (and if payload
happened to end with CR, we would lose it).

it would be best if there was a way to escape characters (ie. "\n" =>
"\\n"). Do we have a function for that?

quoted

+     trace_printf_key(&trace_refs,
+                      "reflog_ent %s (ret %d): %s -> %s, %s %ld \"%s\"\n",
+                      dbg->refname, ret, o, n, committer,
+                      (long int)timestamp, trimmed.buf);
+     strbuf_release(&trimmed);
      return ret;
 }

Can we use counted bytes in trace_printf()?  If we can, it would be
simpler to just scan "msg" for LF and then show only the span
between the beginning of the string and the found LF using "%.*s",
perhaps like this?

I beg to differ - despite this being fewer lines of code, I think
pointer arithmetic is best avoided if possible.

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