refactor argv_array into generic code

The submodule code recently grew generic code to build a
dynamic argv array. Many other parts of the code can reuse
this, too, so let's make it generically available.

There are two enhancements not found in the original code:

  1. We now handle the NULL-termination invariant properly,
     even when no strings have been pushed (before, you
     could have an empty, NULL argv). This was not a problem
     for the submodule code, which always pushed at least
     one argument, but was not sufficiently safe for
     generic code.

  2. There is a formatted variant of the "push" function.
     This is a convenience function which was not needed by
     the submodule code, but will make it easier to port
     other users to the new code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 9431c42dfb..6306737edd 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include "refs.h"
 #include "string-list.h"
 #include "sha1-array.h"
+#include "argv-array.h"
 
 static struct string_list config_name_for_path;
 static struct string_list config_fetch_recurse_submodules_for_name;
@@ -388,52 +389,22 @@ void check_for_new_submodule_commits(unsigned char new_sha1[20])
 	sha1_array_append(&ref_tips_after_fetch, new_sha1);
 }
 
-struct argv_array {
-	const char **argv;
-	unsigned int argc;
-	unsigned int alloc;
-};
-
-static void init_argv(struct argv_array *array)
-{
-	array->argv = NULL;
-	array->argc = 0;
-	array->alloc = 0;
-}
-
-static void push_argv(struct argv_array *array, const char *value)
-{
-	ALLOC_GROW(array->argv, array->argc + 2, array->alloc);
-	array->argv[array->argc++] = xstrdup(value);
-	array->argv[array->argc] = NULL;
-}
-
-static void clear_argv(struct argv_array *array)
-{
-	int i;
-	for (i = 0; i < array->argc; i++)
-		free((char **)array->argv[i]);
-	free(array->argv);
-	init_argv(array);
-}
-
 static void add_sha1_to_argv(const unsigned char sha1[20], void *data)
 {
-	push_argv(data, sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+	argv_array_push(data, sha1_to_hex(sha1));
 }
 
 static void calculate_changed_submodule_paths(void)
 {
 	struct rev_info rev;
 	struct commit *commit;
-	struct argv_array argv;
+	struct argv_array argv = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
 
 	init_revisions(&rev, NULL);
-	init_argv(&argv);
-	push_argv(&argv, "--"); /* argv[0] program name */
+	argv_array_push(&argv, "--"); /* argv[0] program name */
 	sha1_array_for_each_unique(&ref_tips_after_fetch,
 				   add_sha1_to_argv, &argv);
-	push_argv(&argv, "--not");
+	argv_array_push(&argv, "--not");
 	sha1_array_for_each_unique(&ref_tips_before_fetch,
 				   add_sha1_to_argv, &argv);
 	setup_revisions(argv.argc, argv.argv, &rev, NULL);
@@ -460,7 +431,7 @@ static void calculate_changed_submodule_paths(void)
 		}
 	}
 
-	clear_argv(&argv);
+	argv_array_clear(&argv);
 	sha1_array_clear(&ref_tips_before_fetch);
 	sha1_array_clear(&ref_tips_after_fetch);
 	initialized_fetch_ref_tips = 0;