[PATCH v2 07/19] Provide access to the name attribute of git_attr

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It will be present in any likely future reimplementation, and its
availability simplifies other code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt |    3 ++-
 attr.c                                        |    5 +++++
 attr.h                                        |    7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
index 916720f..ab3a84d 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Data Structure
 	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`::
 
diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index b1d1d6d..bfa1f43 100644
--- a/attr.c
+++ b/attr.c
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ static int attr_nr;
 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;
diff --git a/attr.h b/attr.h
index 8b3f19b..d4f875a 100644
--- a/attr.h
+++ b/attr.h
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ struct git_attr_check {
 	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 {
-- 
1.7.6.8.gd2879

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