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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt | 75 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt | 6 |
5 files changed, 78 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt index 1b7d8f140c..1a797812fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Functions Format a string and push it onto the end of the array. This is a convenience wrapper combining `strbuf_addf` and `argv_array_push`. +`argv_array_pop`:: + Remove the final element from the array. If there are no + elements in the array, do nothing. + `argv_array_clear`:: Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the initial, empty state. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt index adb6f0c896..5977b58e57 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt @@ -241,42 +241,9 @@ appended to its command line, which is one of: Remove a matching credential, if any, from the helper's storage. The details of the credential will be provided on the helper's stdin -stream. The credential is split into a set of named attributes. -Attributes are provided to the helper, one per line. Each attribute is -specified by a key-value pair, separated by an `=` (equals) sign, -followed by a newline. The key may contain any bytes except `=`, -newline, or NUL. The value may contain any bytes except newline or NUL. -In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting, -and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of -attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file. - -Git will send the following attributes (but may not send all of -them for a given credential; for example, a `host` attribute makes no -sense when dealing with a non-network protocol): - -`protocol`:: - - The protocol over which the credential will be used (e.g., - `https`). - -`host`:: - - The remote hostname for a network credential. - -`path`:: - - The path with which the credential will be used. E.g., for - accessing a remote https repository, this will be the - repository's path on the server. - -`username`:: - - The credential's username, if we already have one (e.g., from a - URL, from the user, or from a previously run helper). - -`password`:: - - The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored. +stream. The exact format is the same as the input/output format of the +`git credential` plumbing command (see the section `INPUT/OUTPUT +FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[7] for a detailed specification). For a `get` operation, the helper should produce a list of attributes on stdout in the same format. A helper is free to produce a subset, or diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt index 4a4bae8109..45d1c517cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt @@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ Functions the array (but note that some operations below may lose this ordering). -`sha1_array_sort`:: - Sort the elements in the array. - `sha1_array_lookup`:: Perform a binary search of the array for a specific sha1. If found, returns the offset (in number of elements) of the diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt index 5a0c14fceb..94d7a2bd99 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ string-list API =============== -The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle sorted -and unsorted string lists. +The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle +sorted and unsorted string lists. A "sorted" list is one whose +entries are sorted by string value in `strcmp()` order. The 'string_list' struct used to be called 'path_list', but was renamed because it is not specific to paths. @@ -20,8 +21,9 @@ If you need something advanced, you can manually malloc() the `items` member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the `nr` and `alloc` members in that case, too. -. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append` or - `string_list_insert`. +. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append`, + `string_list_append_nodup`, `string_list_insert`, + `string_list_split`, and/or `string_list_split_in_place`. . Can check if a string is in the list using `string_list_has_string` or `unsorted_string_list_has_string` and get it from the list using @@ -29,18 +31,23 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the . Can sort an unsorted list using `sort_string_list`. +. Can remove duplicate items from a sorted list using + `string_list_remove_duplicates`. + . Can remove individual items of an unsorted list using `unsorted_string_list_delete_item`. +. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted + list using `filter_string_list`. + . Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`. Example: ---- -struct string_list list; +struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; int i; -memset(&list, 0, sizeof(struct string_list)); string_list_append(&list, "foo"); string_list_append(&list, "bar"); for (i = 0; i < list.nr; i++) @@ -60,6 +67,22 @@ Functions * General ones (works with sorted and unsorted lists as well) +`filter_string_list`:: + + Apply a function to each item in a list, retaining only the + items for which the function returns true. If free_util is + true, call free() on the util members of any items that have + to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are + retained. + +`string_list_longest_prefix`:: + + Return the longest string within a string_list that is a + prefix (in the sense of prefixcmp()) of the specified string, + or NULL if no such prefix exists. This function does not + require the string_list to be sorted (it does a linear + search). + `print_string_list`:: Dump a string_list to stdout, useful mainly for debugging purposes. It @@ -96,15 +119,32 @@ write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`. Look up a given string in the string_list, returning the containing string_list_item. If the string is not found, NULL is returned. +`string_list_remove_duplicates`:: + + Remove all but the first of consecutive entries that have the + same string value. If free_util is true, call free() on the + util members of any items that have to be deleted. + * Functions for unsorted lists only `string_list_append`:: - Append a new string to the end of the string_list. + Append a new string to the end of the string_list. If + `strdup_string` is set, then the string argument is copied; + otherwise the new `string_list_entry` refers to the input + string. + +`string_list_append_nodup`:: + + Append a new string to the end of the string_list. The new + `string_list_entry` always refers to the input string, even if + `strdup_string` is set. This function can be used to hand + ownership of a malloc()ed string to a `string_list` that has + `strdup_string` set. `sort_string_list`:: - Make an unsorted list sorted. + Sort the list's entries by string value in `strcmp()` order. `unsorted_string_list_has_string`:: @@ -124,6 +164,25 @@ counterpart for sorted lists, which performs a binary search. is set. The third parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the items should be freed or not. +`string_list_split`:: +`string_list_split_in_place`:: + + Split a string into substrings on a delimiter character and + append the substrings to a `string_list`. If `maxsplit` is + non-negative, then split at most `maxsplit` times. Return the + number of substrings appended to the list. ++ +`string_list_split` requires a `string_list` that has `strdup_strings` +set to true; it leaves the input string untouched and makes copies of +the substrings in newly-allocated memory. +`string_list_split_in_place` requires a `string_list` that has +`strdup_strings` set to false; it splits the input string in place, +overwriting the delimiter characters with NULs and creating new +string_list_items that point into the original string (the original +string must therefore not be modified or freed while the `string_list` +is in use). + + Data structures --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 49cdc571cd..d51e20f352 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped. ---- If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute -the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth, starting -at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each +the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set +of commits start at the client's wants. + +The server writes 'shallow' lines for each commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes an 'unshallow' line for each commit which the client has indicated is shallow, but is no longer shallow at the currently requested depth |