git-var: constness and globalness cleanup.

var.c::git_var read function did not have to return writable
strings; make it and the functions it points at return const char *
instead.

ident.c::get_ident() did not need to be global, so make it
static.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index c7c6637..6ac94c5 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -263,9 +263,8 @@ void datestamp(char *buf, int bufsize);
 unsigned long approxidate(const char *);
 
 extern int setup_ident(void);
-extern char *get_ident(const char *name, const char *email, const char *date_str);
-extern char *git_author_info(void);
-extern char *git_committer_info(void);
+extern const char *git_author_info(void);
+extern const char *git_committer_info(void);
 
 static inline void *xmalloc(size_t size)
 {

diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
index bc89e1d..ac1c27f 100644 (file)
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ static int copy(char *buf, int size, int offset, const char *src)
        return offset;
 }
 
-char *get_ident(const char *name, const char *email, const char *date_str)
+static const char *get_ident(const char *name, const char *email,
+                            const char *date_str)
 {
        static char buffer[1000];
        char date[50];
@@ -181,12 +182,16 @@ char *get_ident(const char *name, const char *email, const char *date_str)
        return buffer;
 }
 
-char *git_author_info(void)
+const char *git_author_info(void)
 {
-       return get_ident(getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"), getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"), getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE"));
+       return get_ident(getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"),
+                        getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"),
+                        getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE"));
 }
 
-char *git_committer_info(void)
+const char *git_committer_info(void)
 {
-       return get_ident(getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"), getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"), getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_DATE"));
+       return get_ident(getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_NAME"),
+                        getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"),
+                        getenv("GIT_COMMITTER_DATE"));
 }

diff --git a/var.c b/var.c
index 51cf86a..9804459 100644 (file)
--- a/var.c
+++ b/var.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ static const char var_usage[] = "git-var [-l | <variable>]";
 
 struct git_var {
        const char *name;
-       char *(*read)(void);
+       const char *(*read)(void);
 };
 static struct git_var git_vars[] = {
        { "GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT", git_committer_info },