config.c: add git_env_ulong() to parse environment variable

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 058505cb8d8d8bb531527b620125b0204732458a..adab91909eb0a7c817450971099a72798f8b8c01 100644 (file)
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1116,12 +1116,28 @@ const char *git_etc_gitconfig(void)
        return system_wide;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Parse environment variable 'k' as a boolean (in various
+ * possible spellings); if missing, use the default value 'def'.
+ */
 int git_env_bool(const char *k, int def)
 {
        const char *v = getenv(k);
        return v ? git_config_bool(k, v) : def;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Parse environment variable 'k' as ulong with possibly a unit
+ * suffix; if missing, use the default value 'val'.
+ */
+unsigned long git_env_ulong(const char *k, unsigned long val)
+{
+       const char *v = getenv(k);
+       if (v && !git_parse_ulong(v, &val))
+               die("failed to parse %s", k);
+       return val;
+}
+
 int git_config_system(void)
 {
        return !git_env_bool("GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM", 0);