From c969b6a18d1cde3ffb8a5ca5cd45a57052c2cc95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:27:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] peel_onion: do not assume length of x_type globals

When we are parsing "rev^{foo}", we check "foo" against the
various global type strings, like "commit_type",
"tree_type", etc. This is nicely abstracted, but then we
destroy the abstraction completely by using magic numbers
that must match the length of the type strings.

We could avoid these magic numbers by using skip_prefix. But
taking a step back, we can realize that using the
"commit_type" global is not really buying us anything. It is
not ever going to change from being "commit" without causing
severe breakage to existing uses. And even if it did change
for some crazy reason, we would want to evaluate its effects
on the "rev^{}" syntax, anyway.

Let's just switch these to using a custom string literal, as
we do for "rev^{object}". The resulting code is more robust
to changes in the type strings, and is more readable.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 sha1_name.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 6dc496deb00..2f6e5abaafc 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -677,13 +677,13 @@ static int peel_onion(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
 		return -1;
 
 	sp++; /* beginning of type name, or closing brace for empty */
-	if (!strncmp(commit_type, sp, 6) && sp[6] == '}')
+	if (!prefixcmp(sp, "commit}"))
 		expected_type = OBJ_COMMIT;
-	else if (!strncmp(tag_type, sp, 3) && sp[3] == '}')
+	else if (!prefixcmp(sp, "tag}"))
 		expected_type = OBJ_TAG;
-	else if (!strncmp(tree_type, sp, 4) && sp[4] == '}')
+	else if (!prefixcmp(sp, "tree}"))
 		expected_type = OBJ_TREE;
-	else if (!strncmp(blob_type, sp, 4) && sp[4] == '}')
+	else if (!prefixcmp(sp, "blob}"))
 		expected_type = OBJ_BLOB;
 	else if (!prefixcmp(sp, "object}"))
 		expected_type = OBJ_ANY;