# [PATCH 1/2] Export relative path handling "prefix_path()" function

1 messages from 2005-08-17 to 2005-08-17. Participants: Linus Torvalds.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1563

## Linus Torvalds, 2005-08-17 20:31

Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Export relative path handling "prefix_path()" function
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508171331060.3553@g5.osdl.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.58.0508171331060.3553%40g5.osdl.org

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Not all programs necessarily have a pathspec array of pathnames, some of
them (like git-update-cache) want to do things one file at a time.  So
export the single-path interface too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

 cache.h |    1 +
 setup.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

c06157a36e49182c34e1e92aa7b329bde5dca3f9
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ extern char *get_graft_file(void);
 
 extern const char **get_pathspec(const char *prefix, char **pathspec);
 extern const char *setup_git_directory(void);
+extern char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, char *path);
 
 #define alloc_nr(x) (((x)+16)*3/2)
 
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 
-static char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, char *path)
+char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, char *path)
 {
 	char *orig = path;
 	for (;;) {

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