Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cache_tree_find(): remove redundant checks

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:05:59 -0800

Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]> writes:

>  	while (*path) {
> -		const char *slash;
>  		struct cache_tree_sub *sub;
> +		const char *slash = strchr(path, '/');
>  
> -		slash = strchr(path, '/');
>  		if (!slash)
>  			slash = path + strlen(path);

Isn't the above a strchrnul()?

Combining a freestanding decl with intializer assignment to lose one
line is sort of cheating on the line count, but replacing the three
lines with a single strchrnul() would be a real code reduction ;-)

> -		/* between path and slash is the name of the
> -		 * subtree to look for.
> +		/*
> +		 * Between path and slash is the name of the subtree
> +		 * to look for.
>  		 */
>  		sub = find_subtree(it, path, slash - path, 0);
>  		if (!sub)
>  			return NULL;
>  		it = sub->cache_tree;
> -		if (slash)
> -			while (*slash && *slash == '/')
> -				slash++;
> -		if (!slash || !*slash)
> -			return it; /* prefix ended with slashes */
>  		path = slash;
> +		while (*path == '/')
> +			path++;
>  	}
>  	return it;
>  }