Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/11] http.c: Don't store destination name in request structures

From: Tay Ray Chuan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:36:19 +0800

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:07:38 -0700
"Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The destination name within the object store is easily computed
> on demand, reusing a static buffer held by sha1_file.c.  We don't
> need to copy the entire path into the request structure for safe
> keeping, when it can be easily reformatted after the download has
> been completed.
> 
> This reduces the size of the per-request structure, and removes
> yet another PATH_MAX based limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <[email-masked]>

now that there's a single user of char *filename, we might as well do
away with it.

PS. I think having the below as a separate patch is better than
squashing it in, as it might be detrimental to patch #05's readability
in the latter case.

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From: Tay Ray Chuan <[email-masked]>
Subject: [PATCH] http.c::new_http_pack_request: do away with the temp variable filename

Now that the temporary variable char *filename is only used in one
place, do away with it and just call sha1_pack_name() directly.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <[email-masked]>

diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index c75eb95..110cff9 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -1027,7 +1027,6 @@ int finish_http_pack_request(struct http_pack_request *preq)
 struct http_pack_request *new_http_pack_request(
        struct packed_git *target, const char *base_url)
 {
-       char *filename;
        long prev_posn = 0;
        char range[RANGE_HEADER_SIZE];
        struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -1042,8 +1041,8 @@ struct http_pack_request *new_http_pack_request(
                sha1_to_hex(target->sha1));
        preq->url = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
 
-       filename = sha1_pack_name(target->sha1);
-       snprintf(preq->tmpfile, sizeof(preq->tmpfile), "%s.temp", filename);
+       snprintf(preq->tmpfile, sizeof(preq->tmpfile), "%s.temp",
+               sha1_pack_name(target->sha1));
        preq->packfile = fopen(preq->tmpfile, "a");
        if (!preq->packfile) {
                error("Unable to open local file %s for pack",
--

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan