On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote: > This function was used in the ref-filter.c code to find the longest > common prefix of among a set of refspecs, and then to iterate all of the > references that descend from that prefix. > > A future patch will want to use that same code from ls-refs.c, so > prepare by exposing and moving it to refs.c. Since there is nothing > specific to the ref-filter code here (other than that it was previously > the only caller of this function), this really belongs in the more > generic refs.h header. > > The code moved in this patch is identical before and after, with the one > exception of renaming some arguments to be consistent with other > functions exposed in refs.h. The other non-identical thing is that it handles a namespace parameter (which is good, but an obvious non-movement). -Peff
