interpret_branch_name: move docstring to header file

We generally put docstrings with function declarations,
because it's the callers who need to know how the function
works. Let's do so for interpret_branch_name().

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 5c035dae57c4dfe710802021c4b4af6b6cb1ad8b..81c59d4af4869c376bdf11a1ea4bd239b8850455 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1292,6 +1292,27 @@ extern char *oid_to_hex_r(char *out, const struct object_id *oid);
 extern char *sha1_to_hex(const unsigned char *sha1);   /* static buffer result! */
 extern char *oid_to_hex(const struct object_id *oid);  /* same static buffer as sha1_to_hex */
 
+/*
+ * This reads short-hand syntax that not only evaluates to a commit
+ * object name, but also can act as if the end user spelled the name
+ * of the branch from the command line.
+ *
+ * - "@{-N}" finds the name of the Nth previous branch we were on, and
+ *   places the name of the branch in the given buf and returns the
+ *   number of characters parsed if successful.
+ *
+ * - "<branch>@{upstream}" finds the name of the other ref that
+ *   <branch> is configured to merge with (missing <branch> defaults
+ *   to the current branch), and places the name of the branch in the
+ *   given buf and returns the number of characters parsed if
+ *   successful.
+ *
+ * If the input is not of the accepted format, it returns a negative
+ * number to signal an error.
+ *
+ * If the input was ok but there are not N branch switches in the
+ * reflog, it returns 0.
+ */
 extern int interpret_branch_name(const char *str, int len, struct strbuf *);
 extern int get_oid_mb(const char *str, struct object_id *oid);
 

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 9b5d14b4bf52884d2c6042ddcc5236be57123f48..28865b3a1fdd3006631e8bcbb8c175f1db296bb6 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -1238,27 +1238,6 @@ static int interpret_branch_mark(const char *name, int namelen,
        return len + at;
 }
 
-/*
- * This reads short-hand syntax that not only evaluates to a commit
- * object name, but also can act as if the end user spelled the name
- * of the branch from the command line.
- *
- * - "@{-N}" finds the name of the Nth previous branch we were on, and
- *   places the name of the branch in the given buf and returns the
- *   number of characters parsed if successful.
- *
- * - "<branch>@{upstream}" finds the name of the other ref that
- *   <branch> is configured to merge with (missing <branch> defaults
- *   to the current branch), and places the name of the branch in the
- *   given buf and returns the number of characters parsed if
- *   successful.
- *
- * If the input is not of the accepted format, it returns a negative
- * number to signal an error.
- *
- * If the input was ok but there are not N branch switches in the
- * reflog, it returns 0.
- */
 int interpret_branch_name(const char *name, int namelen, struct strbuf *buf)
 {
        char *at;