C: use skip_prefix() to avoid hardcoded string length

We often skip an optional prefix in a string with a hardcoded
constant, e.g.

	if (starts_with(string, "prefix"))
		string += 6;

which is less error prone when written

	skip_prefix(string, "prefix", &string);

Note that this changes a few error messages from "git reflog expire
--expire=nonsense.timestamp", which used to complain by saying

    '--expire=nonsense.timestamp' is not a valid timestamp

but with this change, we say

    'nonsense.timestamp' is not a valid timestamp

which is more technically correct (the string with --expire= as
a prefix obviously cannot be a valid timestamp, but the error is
about the part of the input without that prefix).

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/reflog.c b/builtin/reflog.c
index 4d3430900d..81dfd563c0 100644
--- a/builtin/reflog.c
+++ b/builtin/reflog.c
@@ -560,15 +560,16 @@ static int cmd_reflog_expire(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
 		const char *arg = argv[i];
+
 		if (!strcmp(arg, "--dry-run") || !strcmp(arg, "-n"))
 			flags |= EXPIRE_REFLOGS_DRY_RUN;
-		else if (starts_with(arg, "--expire=")) {
-			if (parse_expiry_date(arg + 9, &cb.cmd.expire_total))
+		else if (skip_prefix(arg, "--expire=", &arg)) {
+			if (parse_expiry_date(arg, &cb.cmd.expire_total))
 				die(_("'%s' is not a valid timestamp"), arg);
 			explicit_expiry |= EXPIRE_TOTAL;
 		}
-		else if (starts_with(arg, "--expire-unreachable=")) {
-			if (parse_expiry_date(arg + 21, &cb.cmd.expire_unreachable))
+		else if (skip_prefix(arg, "--expire-unreachable=", &arg)) {
+			if (parse_expiry_date(arg, &cb.cmd.expire_unreachable))
 				die(_("'%s' is not a valid timestamp"), arg);
 			explicit_expiry |= EXPIRE_UNREACH;
 		}