Re: [PATCH] branch: colour upstream branches

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Felipe Contreras
>> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Felipe Contreras
>>>> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> +       char fancy[80];
>>>>>
>>>>> -       if (show_upstream_ref)
>>>>> +       if (show_upstream_ref) {
>>>>>                 ref = shorten_unambiguous_ref(branch->merge[0]->dst, 0);
>>>>> +               if (want_color(branch_use_color))
>>>>> +                       snprintf(fancy, sizeof(fancy), "%s%s%s",
>>>>> +                                       GIT_COLOR_BLUE, ref, GIT_COLOR_RESET);
>>>>> +               else
>>>>> +                       strncpy(fancy, ref, sizeof(fancy));
>>>>> +       }
>>>>> +
>>>>
>>>> Please use strbuf for "fancy".
>>>
>>> Why? We would need to initialize and free it. What's the advantage?
>>
>> From a quick glance, I don't see any gurantee that "ref" (plus ansi
>> codes) will always fit in 80 bytes.
>
> Would changing it to 1024 (MAXREFLEN) fix it?

You still need to take ansi codes into account. I think it's easier to
just use strbuf.
--
Duy