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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 34 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index 75aa5d4923..2efe7a40be 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Functions start_command() followed by finish_command(). Takes a pointer to a `struct child_process` that specifies the details. -`run_command_v_opt`, `run_command_v_opt_cd`, `run_command_v_opt_cd_env`:: +`run_command_v_opt`, `run_command_v_opt_cd_env`:: Convenience functions that encapsulate a sequence of start_command() followed by finish_command(). The argument argv @@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ Functions Wait for the completion of an asynchronous function that was started with start_async(). +`run_hook`:: + + Run a hook. + The first argument is a pathname to an index file, or NULL + if the hook uses the default index file or no index is needed. + The second argument is the name of the hook. + The further arguments correspond to the hook arguments. + The last argument has to be NULL to terminate the arguments list. + If the hook does not exist or is not executable, the return + value will be zero. + If it is executable, the hook will be executed and the exit + status of the hook is returned. + On execution, .stdout_to_stderr and .no_stdin will be set. + (See below.) + Data structures --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index 4242dc0142..7438149249 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ Functions * Adding data to the buffer -NOTE: All of these functions in this section will grow the buffer as - necessary. +NOTE: All of the functions in this section will grow the buffer as necessary. +If they fail for some reason other than memory shortage and the buffer hadn't +been allocated before (i.e. the `struct strbuf` was set to `STRBUF_INIT`), +then they will free() it. `strbuf_addch`:: @@ -205,6 +207,13 @@ In order to facilitate caching and to make it possible to give parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context pointer, which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit. +`strbuf_expand_dict_cb`:: + + Used as callback for `strbuf_expand()`, expects an array of + struct strbuf_expand_dict_entry as context, i.e. pairs of + placeholder and replacement string. The array needs to be + terminated by an entry with placeholder set to NULL. + `strbuf_addf`:: Add a formatted string to the buffer. @@ -213,7 +222,7 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit. Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer. + -NOTE: The buffer is rewinded if the read fails. If -1 is returned, +NOTE: The buffer is rewound if the read fails. If -1 is returned, `errno` must be consulted, like you would do for `read(3)`. `strbuf_read()`, `strbuf_read_file()` and `strbuf_getline()` has the same behaviour as well. @@ -228,6 +237,11 @@ same behaviour as well. Read the contents of a file, specified by its path. The third argument can be used to give a hint about the file size, to avoid reallocs. +`strbuf_readlink`:: + + Read the target of a symbolic link, specified by its path. The third + argument can be used to give a hint about the size, to avoid reallocs. + `strbuf_getline`:: Read a line from a FILE* pointer. The second argument specifies the line diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 6bdf034b3a..48bb97f0b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ them, and give the same timestamp to the index file: This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux-2.6 project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working -tree. On my Athron 64X2 3800+, after the above: +tree. On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: $ /usr/bin/time git diff-files 1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k |