split_cmdline: Allow caller to access error string

This allows the caller to add its own error message to that returned
by split_cmdline.  Thus error output following a failed split_cmdline
can be of the form

fatal: Bad alias.test string: cmdline ends with \

rather than

error: cmdline ends with \
fatal: Bad alias.test string

Signed-off-by: Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index c9fa3df7f5..7466ad04fa 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1096,6 +1096,8 @@ void overlay_tree_on_cache(const char *tree_name, const char *prefix);
 
 char *alias_lookup(const char *alias);
 int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv);
+/* Takes a negative value returned by split_cmdline */
+const char *split_cmdline_strerror(int cmdline_errno);
 
 /* builtin/merge.c */
 int checkout_fast_forward(const unsigned char *from, const unsigned char *to);