Re: [PATCH] submodule--helper: do not call utf8_fprintf() unnecessarily

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> The helper function utf8_fprintf(fp, ...) has exactly the same
>>> effect to the output stream fp as fprintf(fp, ...) does, and the
>>> only difference is that its return value counts in display columns
>>> consumed (assuming that the payload is encoded in UTF-8), as opposed
>>> to number of bytes.
>>>
>>> There is no reason to call it unless the caller cares about its
>>> return value.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  * The helper was introduced at c0821965 ("Add utf8_fprintf helper
>>>    that returns correct number of columns", 2013-02-09), which also
>>>    taught the help text output from the parse_options API to use it
>>>    to align columns.  These original callers naturally do use the
>>>    returned value and left alone by this fix, which corrects all the
>>>    later callers that misuses it.
>>>
>>
>> The patch looks correct.

I said this because I had a similar implementation a couple weeks back
when Peff tried to poke (security) holes into submodule usage.

I tried finding the reason why it was originally introduced, but to no avail.
It seems to be randomly introduced.

> Thanks.  I had a small voice back in my head telling me that I may
> have misread the code and this patch breaks things, which you
> cleared up for me ;-)

That said, #include "utf8.h" could also go from the file with this
or after this patch, I believe.