Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:18:26PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
>
>> Am 23.03.2017 um 16:50 schrieb SZEDER Gábor:
>> > This eliminates three magic numbers.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> > refs.c | 10 +++++-----
>> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
>> > index e7606716d..0272e332c 100644
>> > --- a/refs.c
>> > +++ b/refs.c
>> > @@ -366,11 +366,11 @@ int for_each_glob_ref(each_ref_fn fn, const char
>> > *pattern, void *cb_data)
>> >
>> > const char *prettify_refname(const char *name)
>> > {
>> > - return name + (
>> > - starts_with(name, "refs/heads/") ? 11 :
>> > - starts_with(name, "refs/tags/") ? 10 :
>> > - starts_with(name, "refs/remotes/") ? 13 :
>> > - 0);
>> > + if (skip_prefix(name, "refs/heads/", &name) ||
>> > + skip_prefix(name, "refs/tags/", &name) ||
>> > + skip_prefix(name, "refs/remotes/", &name))
>> > + ; /* nothing */
>> > + return name;
>>
>> Nice, but why add the "if" when it's doing nothing?
>
> It's short-circuiting in the conditional.
I think René meant this:
/* just for side effects */
skip_prefix(name, "refs/heads/", &name) ||
skip_prefix(name, "refs/tags/", &name) ||
skip_prefix(name, "refs/remotes/", &name);
return name;
which still short-sircuits, even though I do think it looks
strange; "correct but strange".
