Subject: [PATCH v2 12/12] refs/files-backend: drop const to fix strchr() warning

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 00:15:16 -0400

In show_one_reflog_ent(), we're fed a writable strbuf buffer, which we
parse into the various reflog components. We write a NUL over email_end
to tie off one of the fields, and thus email_end must be non-const.

But with a C23 implementation of libc, strchr() will now complain when
assigning the result to a non-const pointer from a const one. So we can
fix this by making the source pointer non-const.

But there's a catch. We derive that source pointer by parsing the line
with parse_oid_hex_algop(), which requires a const pointer for its
out-parameter. We can work around that by teaching it to use our
CONST_OUTPARAM() trick, just like skip_prefix().

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
---
 hex.c                | 6 +++---
 hex.h                | 6 ++++--
 refs/files-backend.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hex.c b/hex.c
index 865a232167..bc756722ca 100644
--- a/hex.c
+++ b/hex.c
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ int get_oid_hex(const char *hex, struct object_id *oid)
 	return get_oid_hex_algop(hex, oid, the_hash_algo);
 }
 
-int parse_oid_hex_algop(const char *hex, struct object_id *oid,
-			const char **end,
-			const struct git_hash_algo *algop)
+int parse_oid_hex_algop_impl(const char *hex, struct object_id *oid,
+			     const char **end,
+			     const struct git_hash_algo *algop)
 {
 	int ret = get_oid_hex_algop(hex, oid, algop);
 	if (!ret)
diff --git a/hex.h b/hex.h
index e9ccb54065..1e9a65d83a 100644
--- a/hex.h
+++ b/hex.h
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ char *oid_to_hex(const struct object_id *oid);						/* same static buffer */
  * other invalid character.  end is only updated on success; otherwise, it is
  * unmodified.
  */
-int parse_oid_hex_algop(const char *hex, struct object_id *oid, const char **end,
-			const struct git_hash_algo *algo);
+#define parse_oid_hex_algop(hex, oid, end, algo) \
+	parse_oid_hex_algop_impl((hex), (oid), CONST_OUTPARAM((hex), (end)), (algo))
+int parse_oid_hex_algop_impl(const char *hex, struct object_id *oid, const char **end,
+			     const struct git_hash_algo *algo);
 
 /*
  * These functions work like get_oid_hex and parse_oid_hex, but they will parse
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index 0537a72b2a..b3b0c25f84 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@ static int show_one_reflog_ent(struct files_ref_store *refs,
 	char *email_end, *message;
 	timestamp_t timestamp;
 	int tz;
-	const char *p = sb->buf;
+	char *p = sb->buf;
 
 	/* old SP new SP name <email> SP time TAB msg LF */
 	if (!sb->len || sb->buf[sb->len - 1] != '\n' ||
-- 
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