config: add --expiry-datehm/config-parse-expiry-date

Add --expiry-date as a data-type for config files when
'git config --get' is used. This will return any relative
or fixed dates from config files as timestamps.

This is useful for scripts (e.g. gc.reflogexpire) that work
with timestamps so that '2.weeks' can be converted to a format
acceptable by those scripts/functions.

Following the convention of git_config_pathname(), move
the helper function required for this feature from
builtin/reflog.c to builtin/config.c where other similar
functions exist (e.g. for --bool or --path), and match
the order of parameters with other functions (i.e. output
pointer as first parameter).

Signed-off-by: Haaris Mehmood <hsed@unimetic.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/reflog.c b/builtin/reflog.c
index ab31a3b6aa..2233725315 100644
--- a/builtin/reflog.c
+++ b/builtin/reflog.c
@@ -416,16 +416,6 @@ static struct reflog_expire_cfg *find_cfg_ent(const char *pattern, size_t len)
 	return ent;
 }
 
-static int parse_expire_cfg_value(const char *var, const char *value, timestamp_t *expire)
-{
-	if (!value)
-		return config_error_nonbool(var);
-	if (parse_expiry_date(value, expire))
-		return error(_("'%s' for '%s' is not a valid timestamp"),
-			     value, var);
-	return 0;
-}
-
 /* expiry timer slot */
 #define EXPIRE_TOTAL   01
 #define EXPIRE_UNREACH 02
@@ -443,11 +433,11 @@ static int reflog_expire_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 
 	if (!strcmp(key, "reflogexpire")) {
 		slot = EXPIRE_TOTAL;
-		if (parse_expire_cfg_value(var, value, &expire))
+		if (git_config_expiry_date(&expire, var, value))
 			return -1;
 	} else if (!strcmp(key, "reflogexpireunreachable")) {
 		slot = EXPIRE_UNREACH;
-		if (parse_expire_cfg_value(var, value, &expire))
+		if (git_config_expiry_date(&expire, var, value))
 			return -1;
 	} else
 		return git_default_config(var, value, cb);