Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] sha1_file.c: support reading from a loose object of unknown type

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:15:28AM +0530, karthik nayak wrote:

> >But now we use type_from_string_gently, which can accept a length[1]. So
> >we could just count the bytes to the first space and pass the original
> >buffer along with that length, no?
> 
> Yes, we could, that would eliminate  "struct strbuf typename =
> STRBUF_INIT".
> 
> Something like this perhaps :

Yeah, this is exactly what I had in mind.

>   {
> -       char type[10];
> -       int i;
> +       const char *buf = hdr;
>          unsigned long size;
> +       int type, len = 0;

Maybe switch the names of "buf" and "len" to "type_buf" and "type_len"
to make their purpose more clear?

-Peff