Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] remote-testsvn: use internal argv_array of struct child_process in cmd_import()

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:18:42 -0700

René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:

> Use the existing argv_array member instead of providing our own.  This
> way we don't have to initialize or clean it up explicitly.  Because of
> that automatic cleanup, we need to keep our own reference to the
> command name instead of using .argv[0] to print the warning at the end.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <[email-masked]>
> ---
> The added command pointer makes the patch more complicated, but I think
> it still counts as a cleanup.

Surely.  I'd move the "svnrdump" assignment to where the variable is
defined, though; we do not switch what "command" to run depending on
some computed conditions anyway.

>
>  remote-testsvn.c | 17 ++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/remote-testsvn.c b/remote-testsvn.c
> index 6be55cb..e3ad11b 100644
> --- a/remote-testsvn.c
> +++ b/remote-testsvn.c
> @@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ static int cmd_import(const char *line)
>  	char *note_msg;
>  	unsigned char head_sha1[20];
>  	unsigned int startrev;
> -	struct argv_array svndump_argv = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
>  	struct child_process svndump_proc;
> +	const char *command;
>  
>  	if (read_ref(private_ref, head_sha1))
>  		startrev = 0;
> @@ -200,17 +200,17 @@ static int cmd_import(const char *line)
>  		if(dumpin_fd < 0)
>  			die_errno("Couldn't open svn dump file %s.", url);
>  	} else {
> +		command = "svnrdump";
>  		memset(&svndump_proc, 0, sizeof(struct child_process));
>  		svndump_proc.out = -1;
> -		argv_array_push(&svndump_argv, "svnrdump");
> -		argv_array_push(&svndump_argv, "dump");
> -		argv_array_push(&svndump_argv, url);
> -		argv_array_pushf(&svndump_argv, "-r%u:HEAD", startrev);
> -		svndump_proc.argv = svndump_argv.argv;
> +		argv_array_push(&svndump_proc.args, command);
> +		argv_array_push(&svndump_proc.args, "dump");
> +		argv_array_push(&svndump_proc.args, url);
> +		argv_array_pushf(&svndump_proc.args, "-r%u:HEAD", startrev);
>  
>  		code = start_command(&svndump_proc);
>  		if (code)
> -			die("Unable to start %s, code %d", svndump_proc.argv[0], code);
> +			die("Unable to start %s, code %d", command, code);
>  		dumpin_fd = svndump_proc.out;
>  	}
>  	/* setup marks file import/export */
> @@ -226,8 +226,7 @@ static int cmd_import(const char *line)
>  	if (!dump_from_file) {
>  		code = finish_command(&svndump_proc);
>  		if (code)
> -			warning("%s, returned %d", svndump_proc.argv[0], code);
> -		argv_array_clear(&svndump_argv);
> +			warning("%s, returned %d", command, code);
>  	}
>  
>  	return 0;