Re: [PATCH] describe: use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

Am 16.01.2018 um 18:11 schrieb SZEDER Gábor:
> Unfortunately, most of the changes coming from 'strbuf.cocci' don't
> make any sense, they appear to be the mis-application of the "use
> strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() to add a single string" rule:
> 
>    -             strbuf_addf(&sb_repo, "%d", counter);
>    +             strbuf_addstr(&sb_repo, counter);
> 
> It seems that those rules need some refinement, but I have no idea
> about Coccinelle and this is not the time for me to dig deeper.
> 
> What makes all this weird is that running 'make coccicheck' on my own
> machine doesn't produce any of these additional proposed changes, just
> like at René's.  Can it be related to differing Coccinelle versions?
> Travis CI installs 1.0.0~rc19.deb-3; I have 1.0.4.deb-2.

The version difference may explain it, but I couldn't find a matching
bugfix in http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/distrib/changes.html when I just
skimmed it.  I wonder if the following patch could make a difference:

---
 contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci b/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci
index 1d580e49b0..6fe8727421 100644
--- a/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci
+++ b/contrib/coccinelle/strbuf.cocci
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ cocci.include_match("%" not in fmt)
 
 @@
 expression E1, E2;
+format F =~ "s";
 @@
-- strbuf_addf(E1, "%s", E2);
+- strbuf_addf(E1, "%@F@", E2);
 + strbuf_addstr(E1, E2);
 
 @@
-- 
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