Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 6/8] Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:19:09 +0200

On Sonntag, 3. Oktober 2010, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On 3 October 2010 10:56, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > +       if (ignore_case) {
> > +               for (;;) {
> > +                       unsigned char c1 = tolower(*match);
> > +                       unsigned char c2 = tolower(*name);
> > +                       if (c1 == '\0' || is_glob_special(c1))
> > +                               break;
> > +                       if (c1 != c2)
> > +                               return 0;
> > +                       match++;
> > +                       name++;
> > +                       namelen--;
> > +               }
> > +       } else {
> > +               for (;;) {
> > +                       unsigned char c1 = *match;
> > +                       unsigned char c2 = *name;
> > +                       if (c1 == '\0' || is_glob_special(c1))
> > +                               break;
> > +                       if (c1 != c2)
> > +                               return 0;
> > +                       match++;
> > +                       name++;
> > +                       namelen--;
> > +               }
> >        }
>
> It's a real shame about the code duplication here.  Can we not avoid
> it just by doing:
>
> unsigned char c1 = (ignore_case) ? tolower(*match) : *match;
> unisgned char c2 = (ignore_case) ? tolower(*name) : *name;
>
> I appreciate that to some it might look like perl golf, but...

It has been discussed, and IIRC, the concensus was to keep the code 
duplication because this is an inner loop.

-- Hannes