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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e40ac0c7f5..ec7d06c00c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -497,6 +497,7 @@ VCSSVN_LIB=vcs-svn/lib.a
 
 LIB_H += advice.h
 LIB_H += archive.h
+LIB_H += argv-array.h
 LIB_H += attr.h
 LIB_H += blob.h
 LIB_H += builtin.h
@@ -575,6 +576,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += alloc.o
 LIB_OBJS += archive.o
 LIB_OBJS += archive-tar.o
 LIB_OBJS += archive-zip.o
+LIB_OBJS += argv-array.o
 LIB_OBJS += attr.o
 LIB_OBJS += base85.o
 LIB_OBJS += bisect.o