builtin/branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix
authorKaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Fri, 1 Dec 2017 05:59:33 +0000 (11:29 +0530)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 7 Dec 2017 23:06:46 +0000 (15:06 -0800)
Instead of hard-coding the offset strlen("refs/heads/") to skip
the prefix "refs/heads/" use the skip_prefix() function which
is more communicative and verifies that the string actually
starts with that prefix.

Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/branch.c
index ca9d8abd0959507b05396239517b9f7dd088a1da..196d5fe9b5e2a9859d34fb2d55fcb11da68aa712 100644 (file)
@@ -462,6 +462,8 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int
 {
        struct strbuf oldref = STRBUF_INIT, newref = STRBUF_INIT, logmsg = STRBUF_INIT;
        struct strbuf oldsection = STRBUF_INIT, newsection = STRBUF_INIT;
+       const char *interpreted_oldname = NULL;
+       const char *interpreted_newname = NULL;
        int recovery = 0;
        int clobber_head_ok;
 
@@ -493,6 +495,11 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int
 
        reject_rebase_or_bisect_branch(oldref.buf);
 
+       if (!skip_prefix(oldref.buf, "refs/heads/", &interpreted_oldname) ||
+           !skip_prefix(newref.buf, "refs/heads/", &interpreted_newname)) {
+               die("BUG: expected prefix missing for refs");
+       }
+
        if (copy)
                strbuf_addf(&logmsg, "Branch: copied %s to %s",
                            oldref.buf, newref.buf);
@@ -508,10 +515,10 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int
        if (recovery) {
                if (copy)
                        warning(_("Created a copy of a misnamed branch '%s'"),
-                               oldref.buf + 11);
+                               interpreted_oldname);
                else
                        warning(_("Renamed a misnamed branch '%s' away"),
-                               oldref.buf + 11);
+                               interpreted_oldname);
        }
 
        if (!copy &&
@@ -520,9 +527,9 @@ static void copy_or_rename_branch(const char *oldname, const char *newname, int
 
        strbuf_release(&logmsg);
 
-       strbuf_addf(&oldsection, "branch.%s", oldref.buf + 11);
+       strbuf_addf(&oldsection, "branch.%s", interpreted_oldname);
        strbuf_release(&oldref);
-       strbuf_addf(&newsection, "branch.%s", newref.buf + 11);
+       strbuf_addf(&newsection, "branch.%s", interpreted_newname);
        strbuf_release(&newref);
        if (!copy && git_config_rename_section(oldsection.buf, newsection.buf) < 0)
                die(_("Branch is renamed, but update of config-file failed"));