Re: [Outreachy PATCH v5 2/2] gpg-interface: do not use misdesigned strbuf_split*()

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

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

>> @@ -887,19 +887,22 @@ static char *get_default_ssh_signing_key(void)
>>                            &key_stderr, 0);
>>
>>         if (!ret) {
>> -               keys = strbuf_split_max(&key_stdout, '\n', 2);
>> -               if (keys[0] && is_literal_ssh_key(keys[0]->buf, &literal_key)) {
>> +               begin = key_stdout.buf;
>> +               new_line = strchr(begin, '\n');
>> +               end = new_line ? new_line : strchr(begin, '\0');
>> +               first_line = xmemdupz(begin, end - begin);
>
> That works but I wonder if something like the following is not a bit better:
>
>                if (new_line)
>                        first_line = xmemdupz(begin, new_line - begin);
>                else
>                        first_line = xstrdup(begin);

Yeah, that is certainly much easier to understand without even
reading and thinking.

Thanks.