Merge branch 'jc/diff-format-doc' into maint

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index eb9b0ff32829ef62bf2d1af432742841b9720906..553fc017623be771878778c84aca08a4684f6902 100644 (file)
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -678,6 +678,11 @@ extern char *xgetcwd(void);
 
 #define REALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc) (x) = xrealloc((x), (alloc) * sizeof(*(x)))
 
+static inline char *xstrdup_or_null(const char *str)
+{
+       return str ? xstrdup(str) : NULL;
+}
+
 static inline size_t xsize_t(off_t len)
 {
        if (len > (size_t) len)