Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] color.c: trim leading spaces in color_parse_mem()

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:41:22PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
>
>> Normally color_parse_mem() is called from config parser which trims the
>> leading spaces already. The new caller in the next patch won't. Let's be
>> tidy and trim leading spaces too (we already trim trailing spaces before
>> comma).
>
> What comma? I don't think that exists until the next patch. :)
>
> I think just trimming from the front is OK, though, because
> color_parse_mem() trims trailing whitespace after a word. So either you
> have a word and we will trim after it, or you do not (in which case
> this will trim everything and hit the !len case you added).
>
> So maybe a better commit message is just:
>
>   Normally color_parse_mem() is called from config parser which trims
>   the leading spaces already. The new caller in the next patch won't.
>   Let's be tidy and trim leading spaces too (we already trim trailing
>   spaces after a word).
>
> -Peff

Yeah, my reading stuttered at the same place in the original, and
your rewrite looks a lot more sensible.