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author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2020-08-17 17:33:11 -0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-08-17 15:35:47 -0700 |
commit | 9a53219f69bd470053cf93c3f4d2a77b6d4df3e5 (patch) | |
tree | ff39cbe8ca9dd05153de81b7af1c70b6e63b3d7d /Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt | |
parent | config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const() (diff) | |
download | tgif-9a53219f69bd470053cf93c3f4d2a77b6d4df3e5.tar.xz |
config: drop git_config_get_string_const()
As evidenced by the leak fixes in the previous commit, the "const" in
git_config_get_string_const() clearly misleads people into thinking that
it does not allocate a copy of the string. We can fix this by renaming
it, but it's easier still to just drop it. Of the four remaining
callers:
- The one in git_config_parse_expiry() still needs to allocate, since
that's what its callers expect. We can just use the non-const
version and cast our pointer. Slightly ugly, but the damage is
contained in one spot.
- The two in apply are writing to global "const char *" variables, and
need to continue allocating. We often mark these as const because we
assign default string literals to them. But in this case we don't do
that, so we can just declare them as real "char *" pointers and use
the non-const version.
- The call in checkout doesn't actually need a copy; it can just use
the non-allocating "tmp" version of the function.
The function is also mentioned in the MyFirstContribution document. We
can swap that call out for the non-allocating "tmp" variant, which fits
well in the example given.
We'll drop the "configset" and "repo" variants, as well (which are
unused).
Note that this frees up the "const" name, so we could rename the "tmp"
variant back to that. But let's give some time for topics in flight to
adapt to the new code before doing so (if we do it too soon, the
function semantics will change but the compiler won't alert us).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt index d85c9b5143..4f85a089ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt @@ -319,14 +319,14 @@ function body: ... git_config(git_default_config, NULL); - if (git_config_get_string_const("user.name", &cfg_name) > 0) + if (git_config_get_string_tmp("user.name", &cfg_name) > 0) printf(_("No name is found in config\n")); else printf(_("Your name: %s\n"), cfg_name); ---- `git_config()` will grab the configuration from config files known to Git and -apply standard precedence rules. `git_config_get_string_const()` will look up +apply standard precedence rules. `git_config_get_string_tmp()` will look up a specific key ("user.name") and give you the value. There are a number of single-key lookup functions like this one; you can see them all (and more info about how to use `git_config()`) in `Documentation/technical/api-config.txt`. |