It will be present in any likely future reimplementation, and its
availability simplifies other code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An attribute is an opaque object that is identified by its name.
Pass the name to `git_attr()` function to obtain the object of
this type. The internal representation of this structure is
- of no interest to the calling programs.
+ of no interest to the calling programs. The name of the
+ attribute can be retrieved by calling `git_attr_name()`.
`struct git_attr_check`::
static struct git_attr_check *check_all_attr;
static struct git_attr *(git_attr_hash[HASHSIZE]);
+char *git_attr_name(struct git_attr *attr)
+{
+ return attr->name;
+}
+
static unsigned hash_name(const char *name, int namelen)
{
unsigned val = 0, c;
const char *value;
};
+/*
+ * Return the name of the attribute represented by the argument. The
+ * return value is a pointer to a null-delimited string that is part
+ * of the internal data structure; it should not be modified or freed.
+ */
+char *git_attr_name(struct git_attr *);
+
int git_checkattr(const char *path, int, struct git_attr_check *);
enum git_attr_direction {