[PATCH] filter: refactor cgit_new_filter()

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:39 PM, John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> I like the simplification, but I'm not sure the result is better.  Even
> without the rest we should replace the strncmp with prefixcmp though.

Agreed.
>
> There's actually no reason we couldn't mutate "cmd" here, which would
> simplify it a lot, but I'm not sure we want to remove the const
> modifiers all the way through.  Then we can just do "*colon = '\0'" and
> use strcmp.

IMHO, it's better to keep lookup tables like these in the read-only
section. Let's keep the constness.