Re: [PATCH v4] commit.c: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with()

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

Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> writes:

> In record_author_date() & parse_gpg_output(), the callers of
> starts_with() not just want to know if the string starts with the
> prefix, but also can benefit from knowing the string that follows
> the prefix.
>
> By using skip_prefix(), we can do both at the same time.
>
> Helped-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Helped-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Do not add the last when sending; I never signed-off this particular
version of this patch.

> diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
> index 6bf4fe0..01526f7 100644
> --- a/commit.c
> +++ b/commit.c
> @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ define_commit_slab(author_date_slab, unsigned long);
>  static void record_author_date(struct author_date_slab *author_date,
>  			       struct commit *commit)
>  {
> -	const char *buf, *line_end;
> +	const char *buf, *line_end, *ident_line;
>  	char *buffer = NULL;
>  	struct ident_split ident;
>  	char *date_end;
> @@ -566,14 +566,14 @@ static void record_author_date(struct author_date_slab *author_date,
>  	     buf;
>  	     buf = line_end + 1) {
>  		line_end = strchrnul(buf, '\n');
> -		if (!starts_with(buf, "author ")) {
> +		ident_line = skip_prefix(buf, "author ");
> +		if (!ident_line) {
>  			if (!line_end[0] || line_end[1] == '\n')
>  				return; /* end of header */
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  		if (split_ident_line(&ident,
> -				     buf + strlen("author "),
> -				     line_end - (buf + strlen("author "))) ||
> +				    		 ident_line, line_end - ident_line) ||

Funny indentation with some SP followed by HT followed by SP.

>  		    !ident.date_begin || !ident.date_end)
>  			goto fail_exit; /* malformed "author" line */
>  		break;
> @@ -1193,10 +1193,8 @@ static void parse_gpg_output(struct signature_check *sigc)
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(sigcheck_gpg_status); i++) {
>  		const char *found, *next;
>  
> -		if (starts_with(buf, sigcheck_gpg_status[i].check + 1)) {
> -			/* At the very beginning of the buffer */
> -			found = buf + strlen(sigcheck_gpg_status[i].check + 1);
> -		} else {
> +		found = skip_prefix(buf, sigcheck_gpg_status[i].check + 1);
> +		if(!found) {
>  			found = strstr(buf, sigcheck_gpg_status[i].check);
>  			if (!found)
>  				continue;