There is no need to build a copy of the relevant part of the string just
to make sure we have a NUL-terminated string. We can simply pass the
length of the interesting part to dwim_ref() instead.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
/* Remotes are only allowed to fetch actual refs */
if (remote) {
char *ref = NULL;
/* Remotes are only allowed to fetch actual refs */
if (remote) {
char *ref = NULL;
- const char *refname, *colon = NULL;
-
- colon = strchr(name, ':');
- if (colon)
- refname = xstrndup(name, colon - name);
- else
- refname = name;
-
- if (!dwim_ref(refname, strlen(refname), sha1, &ref))
- die("no such ref: %s", refname);
- if (refname != name)
- free((void *)refname);
+ const char *colon = strchr(name, ':');
+ int refnamelen = colon ? colon - name : strlen(name);
+
+ if (!dwim_ref(name, refnamelen, sha1, &ref))
+ die("no such ref: %.*s", refnamelen, name);