object-file API: add a format_object_header() function

Add a convenience function to wrap the xsnprintf() command that
generates loose object headers. This code was copy/pasted in various
parts of the codebase, let's define it in one place and re-use it from
there.

All except one caller of it had a valid "enum object_type" for us,
it's only write_object_file_prepare() which might need to deal with
"git hash-object --literally" and a potential garbage type. Let's have
the primary API use an "enum object_type", and define a *_literally()
function that can take an arbitrary "const char *" for the type.

See [1] for the discussion that prompted this patch, i.e. new code in
object-file.c that wanted to copy/paste the xsnprintf() invocation.

In the case of fast-import.c the callers unfortunately need to cast
back & forth between "unsigned char *" and "char *", since
format_object_header() ad encode_in_pack_object_header() take
different signedness.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/211213.86bl1l9bfz.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/object-store.h b/object-store.h
index 44f6868cc9..8b4413d0ce 100644
--- a/object-store.h
+++ b/object-store.h
@@ -331,6 +331,14 @@ int repo_has_object_file_with_flags(struct repository *r,
  */
 int has_loose_object_nonlocal(const struct object_id *);
 
+/**
+ * format_object_header() is a thin wrapper around s xsnprintf() that
+ * writes the initial "<type> <obj-len>" part of the loose object
+ * header. It returns the size that snprintf() returns + 1.
+ */
+int format_object_header(char *str, size_t size, enum object_type type,
+			 size_t objsize);
+
 void assert_oid_type(const struct object_id *oid, enum object_type expect);
 
 /*