From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, johan@herland.net, josh@joshtriplett.org,
tr@thomasrast.ch, mhagger@alum.mit.edu, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
greg@kroah.com, peff@peff.net, sunshine@sunshineco.com,
ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 03/12] Move lower case functions into wrapper.c
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:16:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlhvvcmnj.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4n2jfva5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:42:10 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
>
>> Yeah, but it seems a bit wasteful to allocate memory for a new string,
>> then downcase it, then compare it with strcmp() and then free it,
>> instead of just using strcasecmp() on the original string.
>
> I wasn't looking at the caller (and I haven't). I agree that, if
> you have to compare case-insensitive user input against known set of
> tokens, using strcasecmp() would be saner than making a downcased
> copy and the set of known tokens. I do not know however you want to
> compare in a case-insensitive way in your application, though.
It appears that one place this "lowercase" is used is to allow
rAnDOm casing in the configuration file, e.g.
[trailer "Signed-off-by"]
where = AfTEr
which I find is totally unnecessary. Do we churn code to accept
such a nonsense input in other places?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-26 22:15 [PATCH v8 00/12] Add interpret-trailers builtin Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 01/12] Add data structures and basic functions for commit trailers Christian Couder
2014-03-26 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 7:55 ` Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 02/12] trailer: process trailers from stdin and arguments Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 03/12] Move lower case functions into wrapper.c Christian Couder
2014-03-26 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 7:47 ` Christian Couder
2014-03-27 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-27 22:34 ` Jeff King
2014-03-27 22:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 22:56 ` Jeff King
2014-03-28 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28 18:50 ` Jeff King
2014-03-28 7:02 ` Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 04/12] trailer: read and process config information Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 05/12] trailer: process command line trailer arguments Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 06/12] trailer: parse trailers from stdin Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 07/12] trailer: put all the processing together and print Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 08/12] trailer: add interpret-trailers command Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 09/12] trailer: add tests for "git interpret-trailers" Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 10/12] trailer: execute command from 'trailer.<name>.command' Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 11/12] trailer: add tests for commands in config file Christian Couder
2014-03-26 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 12/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers' Christian Couder
2014-03-26 23:05 ` [PATCH v8 00/12] Add interpret-trailers builtin Junio C Hamano
2014-03-27 7:53 ` Christian Couder
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