Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] sha1_file: use strncmp for string comparison

From: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:43:35 +0200

Am 30.06.2014 16:22, schrieb Jeff King:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 08:59:53PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Jeff King <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
>>>> index 394fa45..8adab14 100644
>>>> --- a/sha1_file.c
>>>> +++ b/sha1_file.c
>>>> @@ -1207,7 +1207,8 @@ static void prepare_packed_git_one(char *objdir, int local)
>>>>                if (has_extension(de->d_name, ".idx")) {
>>>>                        /* Don't reopen a pack we already have. */
>>>
>>> If we don't follow my suggestion above, we still have this
>>> has_extension. This is a reimplementation of ends_with, isn't it? We can
>>> probably drop it and just use ends_with.
>>
>> This calls for another patch if we just want to kill has_extension()
>> in favor of ends_with(). There are 12 call sites of it.
>
> Yes. Some of those would want to become ends_with, and some would
> actually want to become strip_suffix. I'm working up a series now.

NB: has_extension is almost the same as ends_with, but it also checks if 
the string is longer than just the extension:

	ends_with("x", "x") => 1
	has_extension("x", "x") => 0

René