Subject: [PATCH] submodule--helper: don't print null in 'submodule status'

From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:53:37 +0200

The function compute_rev_name() can return NULL sometimes (e.g. right
after 'submodule init'). The current code makes 'submodule status'
print this:

 19d97bf5af05312267c2e874ee6bcf584d9e9681 sha1collisiondetection ((null))

This ugly 'null' adds no value to the user using this command. More
importantly printf() on some platform can't handle NULL as a string
and will crash instead of printing '(null)'.

Check for this and skip printing this part (the alternative is
printing '(n/a)' or something but I think that is just noise).

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/submodule--helper.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index a404df3ea4..4dc7d7d29f 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -596,8 +596,12 @@ static void print_status(unsigned int flags, char state, const char *path,
 
 	printf("%c%s %s", state, oid_to_hex(oid), displaypath);
 
-	if (state == ' ' || state == '+')
-		printf(" (%s)", compute_rev_name(path, oid_to_hex(oid)));
+	if (state == ' ' || state == '+') {
+		const char *name = compute_rev_name(path, oid_to_hex(oid));
+
+		if (name)
+			printf(" (%s)", name);
+	}
 
 	printf("\n");
 }
-- 
2.17.0.367.g5dd2e386c3