Re: [regression] Re: git-cat-file --batch reversion; cannot query filenames with spaces

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 11:30:03AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I didn't see the result of your wrangling in pu, but I will keep an eye
> > out to double-check it (unless you did not finish, in which case I am
> > happy to do the wrangling myself).
> 
> Here is what is on top of the revert that has been pushed out on
> 'pu'.

Thanks, that looks good to me.

We may want to also squash in the patch below, which puts the pointer
variable in the most-local block and re-wraps the newly indented comment
for line length. Neither introduced by your adaptation, but they became
more obvious to me when seen on top of the revert.

-Peff

---
diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
index 07b4818..41afaa5 100644
--- a/builtin/cat-file.c
+++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
@@ -286,15 +286,15 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
 	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0;
 
 	while (strbuf_getline(&buf, stdin, '\n') != EOF) {
-		char *p;
 		int error;
 
 		if (data.split_on_whitespace) {
 			/*
-			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning of the
-			 * string and saving the remainder (or NULL) in data.rest.
+			 * Split at first whitespace, tying off the beginning
+			 * of the string and saving the remainder (or NULL) in
+			 * data.rest.
 			 */
-			p = strpbrk(buf.buf, " \t");
+			char *p = strpbrk(buf.buf, " \t");
 			if (p) {
 				while (*p && strchr(" \t", *p))
 					*p++ = '\0';