Mention the fact that 'git annotate' is only for backward compatibility.

diff --git a/exec_cmd.c b/exec_cmd.c
index 0ed768ddc0ac321f0d8dcf8b501412a0b440c31e..ce6741eb682b59ad638c7bee6ca31e2fcd53f281 100644 (file)
--- a/exec_cmd.c
+++ b/exec_cmd.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void setup_path(void)
        strbuf_release(&new_path);
 }
 
-int execv_git_cmd(const char **argv)
+const char **prepare_git_cmd(const char **argv)
 {
        int argc;
        const char **nargv;
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ int execv_git_cmd(const char **argv)
        for (argc = 0; argv[argc]; argc++)
                nargv[argc + 1] = argv[argc];
        nargv[argc + 1] = NULL;
+       return nargv;
+}
+
+int execv_git_cmd(const char **argv) {
+       const char **nargv = prepare_git_cmd(argv);
        trace_argv_printf(nargv, "trace: exec:");
 
        /* execvp() can only ever return if it fails */