On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:18:48PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > While I'm thinking about it, here are patches to do that. The third one
> > I'd probably squash into yours (after ordering it to the end).
> >
> >   [1/3]: parse_config_key: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with
> >   [2/3]: parse_config_key: allow matching single-level config
> >   [3/3]: parse_hide_refs_config: tell parse_config_key we don't want a 
> > subsection
> 
> While you were doing that, I was grepping the call sites for
> parse_config_key() and made sure that all of them are OK when fed
> two level names.  Most of them follow this pattern:
> 
>       if (parse_config_key(k, "diff", &name, &namelen, &type) || !name)
>               return -1;
> 
> and ones that do not immediately check !name does either eventually
> do so or have separate codepaths for handlihng two- and three-level
> names.

Yeah, I did that, too. :)

I don't think there are any other sites to convert. And I don't think we
can make the "!name" case easier (because some call-sites do want to
handle both types). And it's not like it gets much easier anyway (unlike
the opposite case, you _do_ need to declare the extra variables.

-Peff

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