+/*
+ * The fields f and name of top need to be initialized before calling
+ * this function.
+ */
+static int do_config_from(struct config_file *top, config_fn_t fn, void *data)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ /* push config-file parsing state stack */
+ top->prev = cf;
+ top->linenr = 1;
+ top->eof = 0;
+ strbuf_init(&top->value, 1024);
+ strbuf_init(&top->var, 1024);
+ cf = top;
+
+ ret = git_parse_file(fn, data);
+
+ /* pop config-file parsing state stack */
+ strbuf_release(&top->value);
+ strbuf_release(&top->var);
+ cf = top->prev;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+