Merge branch 'rs/hex-to-bytes-cleanup'

Code cleanup.

* rs/hex-to-bytes-cleanup:
  sha1_file: use hex_to_bytes()
  http-push: use hex_to_bytes()
  notes: move hex_to_bytes() to hex.c and export it

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index d74f00d..cb7fb7c 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1341,6 +1341,13 @@ extern int get_sha1_hex(const char *hex, unsigned char *sha1);
 extern int get_oid_hex(const char *hex, struct object_id *sha1);
 
 /*
+ * Read `len` pairs of hexadecimal digits from `hex` and write the
+ * values to `binary` as `len` bytes. Return 0 on success, or -1 if
+ * the input does not consist of hex digits).
+ */
+extern int hex_to_bytes(unsigned char *binary, const char *hex, size_t len);
+
+/*
  * Convert a binary sha1 to its hex equivalent. The `_r` variant is reentrant,
  * and writes the NUL-terminated output to the buffer `out`, which must be at
  * least `GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ + 1` bytes, and returns a pointer to out for