Merge branch 'mh/notes-string-list'

Improve the asymptotic performance of the cat_sort_uniq notes merge
strategy.

* mh/notes-string-list:
  string_list_add_refs_from_colon_sep(): use string_list_split()
  notes: fix handling of colon-separated values
  combine_notes_cat_sort_uniq(): sort and dedup lines all at once
  Initialize sort_uniq_list using named constant
  string_list: add a function string_list_remove_empty_items()

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/string-list.c b/string-list.c
index c54b816244..397e6cfa7d 100644
--- a/string-list.c
+++ b/string-list.c
@@ -136,6 +136,15 @@ void filter_string_list(struct string_list *list, int free_util,
 	list->nr = dst;
 }
 
+static int item_is_not_empty(struct string_list_item *item, void *unused)
+{
+	return *item->string != '\0';
+}
+
+void string_list_remove_empty_items(struct string_list *list, int free_util) {
+	filter_string_list(list, free_util, item_is_not_empty, NULL);
+}
+
 char *string_list_longest_prefix(const struct string_list *prefixes,
 				 const char *string)
 {