object-store: factor out odb_loose_cache()

Add and use a function for loading the entries of a loose object
subdirectory for a given object ID.  It frees callers from deriving the
fanout key; they can use the returned oid_array reference for lookups or
forward range scans.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/object-store.h b/object-store.h
index 60758efad8..7236c571c0 100644
--- a/object-store.h
+++ b/object-store.h
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ void add_to_alternates_memory(const char *dir);
  */
 void odb_load_loose_cache(struct object_directory *odb, int subdir_nr);
 
+/*
+ * Populate and return the loose object cache array corresponding to the
+ * given object ID.
+ */
+struct oid_array *odb_loose_cache(struct object_directory *odb,
+				  const struct object_id *oid);
+
 struct packed_git {
 	struct packed_git *next;
 	struct list_head mru;