Merge branch 'jk/prefix-filename'

Code clean-up with minor bugfixes.

* jk/prefix-filename:
  bundle: use prefix_filename with bundle path
  prefix_filename: simplify windows #ifdef
  prefix_filename: return newly allocated string
  prefix_filename: drop length parameter
  prefix_filename: move docstring to header file
  hash-object: fix buffer reuse with --path in a subdirectory

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 2214d52..db4120c 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -529,7 +529,19 @@ extern const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *);
 extern const char *setup_git_directory(void);
 extern char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path);
 extern char *prefix_path_gently(const char *prefix, int len, int *remaining, const char *path);
-extern const char *prefix_filename(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path);
+
+/*
+ * Concatenate "prefix" (if len is non-zero) and "path", with no
+ * connecting characters (so "prefix" should end with a "/").
+ * Unlike prefix_path, this should be used if the named file does
+ * not have to interact with index entry; i.e. name of a random file
+ * on the filesystem.
+ *
+ * The return value is always a newly allocated string (even if the
+ * prefix was empty).
+ */
+extern char *prefix_filename(const char *prefix, const char *path);
+
 extern int check_filename(const char *prefix, const char *name);
 extern void verify_filename(const char *prefix,
 			    const char *name,