Provide access to the name attribute of git_attr

It will be present in any likely future reimplementation, and its
availability simplifies other code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/attr.h b/attr.h
index 8b3f19be67..d4f875a3d5 100644
--- a/attr.h
+++ b/attr.h
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ struct git_attr_check {
 	const char *value;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Return the name of the attribute represented by the argument.  The
+ * return value is a pointer to a null-delimited string that is part
+ * of the internal data structure; it should not be modified or freed.
+ */
+char *git_attr_name(struct git_attr *);
+
 int git_checkattr(const char *path, int, struct git_attr_check *);
 
 enum git_attr_direction {