Re: [PATCH] Trim ending whitespaces in exclude file if needed.

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

(+cc: msysgit)

Vasyl' wrote:

> Hope this can save someone's time debugging git.

It sounds like there's a story behind this one.  Could you tell it?
That would help future readers of this code to easily determine
why they shouldn't break it.

> --- a/dir.c
> +++ b/dir.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,15 @@ void add_exclude(const char *string, const char *base,
>  		to_exclude = 0;
>  		string++;
>  	}
> +

Why?

>  	len = strlen(string);
> +	if (len && isspace((unsigned char)string[len - 1])) {

This cast is not needed (see git-compat-util.h).

> +		struct strbuf trim_buf = STRBUF_INIT;
> +		strbuf_add(&trim_buf, string, len);
> +		strbuf_rtrim(&trim_buf);

Missing free(string)?

> +		string = strbuf_detach(&trim_buf, &len);
> +	}
> +
>  	if (len && string[len - 1] == '/') {

Thanks for a clear and pleasant read.
Jonathan