alternates: provide helper for adding to alternates list

The submodule code wants to temporarily add an alternate
object store to our in-memory alt_odb list, but does it
manually. Let's provide a helper so it can reuse the code in
link_alt_odb_entry().

While we're adding our new add_to_alternates_memory(), let's
document add_to_alternates_file(), as the two are related.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 6fc0e5ae68a6965c8be3b822400145095b56f755..258ce6b0f06d7395818c8cd2e2de96fe894f29c0 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1389,10 +1389,22 @@ extern struct alternate_object_database {
 extern void prepare_alt_odb(void);
 extern void read_info_alternates(const char * relative_base, int depth);
 extern char *compute_alternate_path(const char *path, struct strbuf *err);
-extern void add_to_alternates_file(const char *reference);
 typedef int alt_odb_fn(struct alternate_object_database *, void *);
 extern int foreach_alt_odb(alt_odb_fn, void*);
 
+/*
+ * Add the directory to the on-disk alternates file; the new entry will also
+ * take effect in the current process.
+ */
+extern void add_to_alternates_file(const char *dir);
+
+/*
+ * Add the directory to the in-memory list of alternates (along with any
+ * recursive alternates it points to), but do not modify the on-disk alternates
+ * file.
+ */
+extern void add_to_alternates_memory(const char *dir);
+
 struct pack_window {
        struct pack_window *next;
        unsigned char *base;

diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 3d8c1e88a53e23d8c6b93f1b8b915adf15b43ecd..7a3b74544803fb151b44fe76eab4b95b2ccaaa2c 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -440,6 +440,17 @@ void add_to_alternates_file(const char *reference)
        free(alts);
 }
 
+void add_to_alternates_memory(const char *reference)
+{
+       /*
+        * Make sure alternates are initialized, or else our entry may be
+        * overwritten when they are.
+        */
+       prepare_alt_odb();
+
+       link_alt_odb_entries(reference, strlen(reference), '\n', NULL, 0);
+}
+
 /*
  * Compute the exact path an alternate is at and returns it. In case of
  * error NULL is returned and the human readable error is added to `err`

diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 0ef2ff4321d1723d05e9328e564313437ec8476e..8b3274a9dcf0854b79475b7a69c35b2a7c2b3bc5 100644 (file)
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -123,9 +123,7 @@ void stage_updated_gitmodules(void)
 static int add_submodule_odb(const char *path)
 {
        struct strbuf objects_directory = STRBUF_INIT;
-       struct alternate_object_database *alt_odb;
        int ret = 0;
-       size_t alloc;
 
        ret = strbuf_git_path_submodule(&objects_directory, path, "objects/");
        if (ret)
@@ -134,26 +132,7 @@ static int add_submodule_odb(const char *path)
                ret = -1;
                goto done;
        }
-       /* avoid adding it twice */
-       prepare_alt_odb();
-       for (alt_odb = alt_odb_list; alt_odb; alt_odb = alt_odb->next)
-               if (alt_odb->name - alt_odb->base == objects_directory.len &&
-                               !strncmp(alt_odb->base, objects_directory.buf,
-                                       objects_directory.len))
-                       goto done;
-
-       alloc = st_add(objects_directory.len, 42); /* for "12/345..." sha1 */
-       alt_odb = xmalloc(st_add(sizeof(*alt_odb), alloc));
-       alt_odb->next = alt_odb_list;
-       xsnprintf(alt_odb->base, alloc, "%s", objects_directory.buf);
-       alt_odb->name = alt_odb->base + objects_directory.len;
-       alt_odb->name[2] = '/';
-       alt_odb->name[40] = '\0';
-       alt_odb->name[41] = '\0';
-       alt_odb_list = alt_odb;
-
-       /* add possible alternates from the submodule */
-       read_info_alternates(objects_directory.buf, 0);
+       add_to_alternates_memory(objects_directory.buf);
 done:
        strbuf_release(&objects_directory);
        return ret;