Re: [PATCH] log-tree: always use return value of strbuf_detach()

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 02:53:26PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> strbuf_detach() has been returning a pointer to a buffer even for empty
> strbufs since 08ad56f3f0 ("strbuf: always return a non-NULL value from
> strbuf_detach", 2012-10-18).  Use that feature in show_log() instead of
> having it handle empty strbufs specially.
> 
> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> ---
> The patched code was added one day earlier, by ddf333f66c ("pretty:
> prepare notes message at a centralized place", 2012-10-17).

Bad timing, I guess. :)

> diff --git a/log-tree.c b/log-tree.c
> index 1e56df62a7..109c212224 100644
> --- a/log-tree.c
> +++ b/log-tree.c
> @@ -677,9 +677,7 @@ void show_log(struct rev_info *opt)
>  		raw = (opt->commit_format == CMIT_FMT_USERFORMAT);
>  		format_display_notes(&commit->object.oid, &notebuf,
>  				     get_log_output_encoding(), raw);
> -		ctx.notes_message = notebuf.len
> -			? strbuf_detach(&notebuf, NULL)
> -			: xcalloc(1, 1);
> +		ctx.notes_message = strbuf_detach(&notebuf, NULL);
>  	}

Yeah, this is definitely the right thing to do.

-Peff