Re: [PATCH] refs.c: use skip_prefix() in prettify_refname()

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:18:26PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
>
>> Am 23.03.2017 um 16:50 schrieb SZEDER Gábor:
>> > This eliminates three magic numbers.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> >  refs.c | 10 +++++-----
>> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
>> > index e7606716d..0272e332c 100644
>> > --- a/refs.c
>> > +++ b/refs.c
>> > @@ -366,11 +366,11 @@ int for_each_glob_ref(each_ref_fn fn, const char *pattern, void *cb_data)
>> > 
>> >  const char *prettify_refname(const char *name)
>> >  {
>> > -	return name + (
>> > -		starts_with(name, "refs/heads/") ? 11 :
>> > -		starts_with(name, "refs/tags/") ? 10 :
>> > -		starts_with(name, "refs/remotes/") ? 13 :
>> > -		0);
>> > +	if (skip_prefix(name, "refs/heads/", &name) ||
>> > +	    skip_prefix(name, "refs/tags/", &name) ||
>> > +	    skip_prefix(name, "refs/remotes/", &name))
>> > +		; /* nothing */
>> > +	return name;
>> 
>> Nice, but why add the "if" when it's doing nothing?
>
> It's short-circuiting in the conditional.

I think René meant this:

     /* just for side effects */
     skip_prefix(name, "refs/heads/", &name) ||
     skip_prefix(name, "refs/tags/", &name) ||
     skip_prefix(name, "refs/remotes/", &name);

     return name;

which still short-sircuits, even though I do think it looks
strange; "correct but strange".