Re: [PATCH] for-each-ref: remove multiple xstrdup() in get_short_ref()

[Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 09:44, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:33:19AM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>
>> Now that get_short_ref() always return an malloced string, consolidate to
>> one xstrcpy() call.
>
> Makes sense to squash in on top of what I have. But I think it actually
> is pretty easy to always return a pointer into the existing string
> (patch based on current master):
Yes, thats probably a good idea. The caller can always do a
xstrdup(get_short_ref(ref)).

> @@ -637,12 +637,14 @@ static char *get_short_ref(struct refinfo *ref)
>                 * short name is non-ambiguous if all previous rules
>                 * haven't resolved to a valid ref
>                 */
> -               if (j == i)
> -                       return short_name;
> +               if (j == i) {
> +                       ref += strlen(ref) - strlen(short_name);
we have strlen(short_name) in short_name_len already.

Bert