On 7/21/2014 11:29 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Tanay Abhra <tanay...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Use `git_config_get_string()` instead of `git_config()` to take advantage of
>> the config-set API which provides a cleaner control flow.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanay...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  branch.c | 24 ++++--------------------
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
>> index 46e8aa8..827307f 100644
>> --- a/branch.c
>> +++ b/branch.c
>> @@ -140,33 +140,17 @@ static int setup_tracking(const char *new_ref, const 
>> char *orig_ref,
>>      return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> -struct branch_desc_cb {
>> -    const char *config_name;
>> -    const char *value;
>> -};
>> -
>> -static int read_branch_desc_cb(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
>> -{
>> -    struct branch_desc_cb *desc = cb;
>> -    if (strcmp(desc->config_name, var))
>> -            return 0;
>> -    free((char *)desc->value);
>> -    return git_config_string(&desc->value, var, value);
>> -}
>> -
>>  int read_branch_desc(struct strbuf *buf, const char *branch_name)
>>  {
>> -    struct branch_desc_cb cb;
>> +    const char *v = NULL;
>>      struct strbuf name = STRBUF_INIT;
>>      strbuf_addf(&name, "branch.%s.description", branch_name);
>> -    cb.config_name = name.buf;
>> -    cb.value = NULL;
>> -    if (git_config(read_branch_desc_cb, &cb) < 0) {
>> +    if (git_config_get_string(name.buf, &v)) {
>>              strbuf_release(&name);
>>              return -1;
>>      }
>> -    if (cb.value)
>> -            strbuf_addstr(buf, cb.value);
>> +    strbuf_addstr(buf, v);
>> +    free((char*)v);
> 
> In this cast, I smell an API mistake to insist an extra constness to
> the output parameter of git_config_get_string() in [3/4] of the
> previous series.  Unlike the underlying git_config_get_value(),
> which lets the caller peek into the internal cached copy, the caller
> of git_config_get_string() is given its own copy, and I do not
> offhand see a good reason to forbid the caller from modifying it.
>

I modeled git_config_get_string() on the previously existing API function
git_config_string() with the signature,
int git_config_string(const char **dest, const char *var, const char *value).

But after writing this series I do think there isn't a good reason to
keep the constness in the new function also since the dest is given
its own copy.


>>      strbuf_release(&name);
>>      return 0;
>>  }
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