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
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html