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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:07:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlkit7vy5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702191839.05784.andyparkins@gmail.com> (Andy Parkins's message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:39:05 +0000")

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com> writes:

> Changed repeated use of the same constants for the ref paths to be
> symbolic constants.  I've defined them in refs.h
>
>   refs/ is now PATH_REFS
>   refs/heads/ is now PATH_REFS_HEADS
>   refs/tags/ is now PATH_REFS_TAGS
>   refs/remotes/ is now PATH_REFS_REMOTES

Your example:

> ...  This has clarified the code in some places; for
> example:
>
>  - len = strlen(refs[i]) + 11;
>  + len = strlen(refs[i]) + STRLEN_PATH_REFS_TAGS + 1;

shows that you've carefully looked at what the code does,
instead of mindlessly replacing, which is a very good sign, but
how much testing has this seen, I wonder.

> diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c
> index bcc6456..0f78363 100644
> --- a/builtin-describe.c
> +++ b/builtin-describe.c
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int get_name(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void
>  	 * If --tags, then any tags are used.
>  	 * Otherwise only annotated tags are used.
>  	 */
> -	if (!strncmp(path, "refs/tags/", 10)) {
> +	if (!strncmp(path, PATH_TAGS, STRLEN_PATH_TAGS)) {
>  		if (object->type == OBJ_TAG)
>  			prio = 2;
>  		else

This is PATH_REFS_TAGS isn't it?

> @@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ static int create_default_files(const char *git_dir, const char *template_path)
>  	strcpy(path + len, "HEAD");
>  	reinit = !read_ref("HEAD", sha1);
>  	if (!reinit) {
> -		if (create_symref("HEAD", "refs/heads/master", NULL) < 0)
> +		if (create_symref("HEAD", PATH_REFS_HEADS "master", NULL) < 0)
>  			exit(1);
>  	}
>  

I mildly mind this one, as it hurts grep-ability.  I know this is one
of the the only two places in git that 'master' branch is treated
specially (and I think we would like to keep it that way --- that's
why I want to be able to grep for "refs/heads/master" and see very few
hits), so introducing PATH_REFS_HEADS_MASTER is probably not very
productive either, but...  hmmmm.

> diff --git a/builtin-pack-refs.c b/builtin-pack-refs.c
> index 3de9b3e..ac7543d 100644
> --- a/builtin-pack-refs.c
> +++ b/builtin-pack-refs.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static int handle_one_ref(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1,
>  	/* Do not pack the symbolic refs */
>  	if ((flags & REF_ISSYMREF))
>  		return 0;
> -	is_tag_ref = !strncmp(path, "refs/tags/", 10);
> +	is_tag_ref = !strncmp(path, PATH_REFS_TAGS, STRLEN_PATH_REFS_TAGS);

These repeated strncmp(p, X, STRLEN_X) almost makes me wonder if we
want to introduce:

	inline int prefixcmp(a, b)
        {
        	return (strncmp(a, b, strlen(b));
        }

with clever preprocessor optimization to have compiler do strlen()
when b is a string literal.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-19 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19 18:39 [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants Andy Parkins
2007-02-19 18:55 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-19 20:01   ` [PATCH] Replace literal STRLEN_ #defines in refs.h with compiler evaluated expressions Andy Parkins
2007-02-19 20:50   ` [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants Krzysztof Halasa
2007-02-19 20:56     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-19 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-02-19 20:12   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-19 22:08   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-20  8:41   ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-20  9:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20  9:42   ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-20  9:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20 10:21       ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-20 10:30         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20 10:57           ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-20 11:37             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-20 12:24               ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-20 13:26                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-20 13:26               ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-20 15:46             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-20  9:51     ` [PATCH 1/4] Add prefixcmp() Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20 10:04       ` David Kågedal
2007-02-20 10:20         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20  9:53     ` [PATCH 2/4] Mechanical conversion to use prefixcmp() Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20 10:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20 11:53       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-21  6:43         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-21 12:41           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-20  9:54     ` [PATCH 3/4] prefixcmp(): fix-up mechanical conversion Junio C Hamano
2007-02-20  9:55     ` [PATCH 4/4] prefixcmp(): fix-up leftover strncmp() Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-02 15:58 [PATCH 1/2] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants Jeff King
2007-10-02 18:16 ` [PATCH] " Andy Parkins
2007-10-02 19:11   ` Jeff King
2007-10-02 19:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-02 20:48       ` Jeff King
2007-10-03  0:22         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-03  2:58           ` Jeff King
2007-10-03  4:05             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03  4:30               ` Jeff King
2007-10-03 11:30               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-03  7:37         ` Andy Parkins
2007-10-03  7:50     ` Andy Parkins
2007-10-03 11:13       ` Andy Parkins

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