utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper

With the recent change to ignore the UTF8 BOM at the beginning of
.gitignore files, we now have two codepaths that do such a skipping
(the other one is for reading the configuration files).

Introduce utf8_bom[] constant string and skip_utf8_bom() helper
and teach .gitignore code how to use it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index 520fbb4994..28e6d76a42 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -633,3 +633,14 @@ int is_hfs_dotgit(const char *path)
 
 	return 1;
 }
+
+const char utf8_bom[] = "\357\273\277";
+
+int skip_utf8_bom(char **text, size_t len)
+{
+	if (len < strlen(utf8_bom) ||
+	    memcmp(*text, utf8_bom, strlen(utf8_bom)))
+		return 0;
+	*text += strlen(utf8_bom);
+	return 1;
+}