Re: [PATCH] name-rev: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with()

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 04:23:31PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

> diff --git a/builtin/name-rev.c b/builtin/name-rev.c
> index b0f0776947..c261d661d7 100644
> --- a/builtin/name-rev.c
> +++ b/builtin/name-rev.c
> @@ -161,10 +161,8 @@ static const char *name_ref_abbrev(const char *refname, int shorten_unambiguous)
>  {
>  	if (shorten_unambiguous)
>  		refname = shorten_unambiguous_ref(refname, 0);
> -	else if (starts_with(refname, "refs/heads/"))
> -		refname = refname + 11;
> -	else if (starts_with(refname, "refs/"))
> -		refname = refname + 5;
> +	else if (!skip_prefix(refname, "refs/heads/", &refname))
> +		skip_prefix(refname, "refs/", &refname);
>  	return refname;

And this one is correct because we were already mutating the pointer.
Good.

Collapsing the conditional makes sense. IMHO it might be a little easier
to follow if we keep else-if non-negated, like:

  if (shorten_unambiguous)
         refname = shorten_unambiguous(refname, 0);
  else if (skip_prefix(refname, "refs/heads/", &refname))
         ; /* refname already advanced */
  else
         skip_prefix(refname, "refs/", &refname);

but I'm fine with it either way.

Also, I think we are leaking the result of shorten_unambiguous_refename
here (the caller won't free it, as we return a const; but anyway we
sometimes return a pointer into the existing const string so it wouldn't
be safe). That's all outside your patch, obviously.

-Peff