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-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt13
4 files changed, 35 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
index 1a79781..a959517 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
@@ -53,3 +53,11 @@ Functions
`argv_array_clear`::
Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the
initial, empty state.
+
+`argv_array_detach`::
+ Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transfering
+ ownership of the allocated array and strings.
+
+`argv_array_free_detached`::
+ Free the memory allocated by a `struct argv_array` that was later
+ detached and is now no longer needed.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
index d6fc90a..18142b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ The following utility functions are wrappers around `graph_next_line()` and
They can all be called with a NULL graph argument, in which case no graph
output will be printed.
-* `graph_show_commit()` calls `graph_next_line()` until it returns non-zero.
- This prints all graph lines up to, and including, the line containing this
- commit. Output is printed to stdout. The last line printed does not contain
- a terminating newline. This should not be called if the commit line has
- already been printed, or it will loop forever.
+* `graph_show_commit()` calls `graph_next_line()` and
+ `graph_is_commit_finished()` until one of them return non-zero. This prints
+ all graph lines up to, and including, the line containing this commit.
+ Output is printed to stdout. The last line printed does not contain a
+ terminating newline.
* `graph_show_oneline()` calls `graph_next_line()` and prints the result to
stdout. The line printed does not contain a terminating newline.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 95a8bf3..84686b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -279,6 +279,22 @@ same behaviour as well.
Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if
comments are considered contents to be removed or not.
+`strbuf_split_buf`::
+`strbuf_split_str`::
+`strbuf_split_max`::
+`strbuf_split`::
+
+ Split a string or strbuf into a list of strbufs at a specified
+ terminator character. The returned substrings include the
+ terminator characters. Some of these functions take a `max`
+ parameter, which, if positive, limits the output to that
+ number of substrings.
+
+`strbuf_list_free`::
+
+ Free a list of strbufs (for example, the return values of the
+ `strbuf_split()` functions).
+
`launch_editor`::
Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
index 94d7a2b..20be348 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`.
. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted
- list using `filter_string_list`.
+ list using `filter_string_list`, or remove empty strings using
+ `string_list_remove_empty_items`.
. Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`.
@@ -75,13 +76,11 @@ Functions
to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are
retained.
-`string_list_longest_prefix`::
+`string_list_remove_empty_items`::
- 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).
+ Remove any empty strings from the list. 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.
`print_string_list`::