Merge branch 'jk/config-parsing-cleanup'

Configuration parsing for tar.* configuration variables were
broken. Introduce a new config-keyname parser API to make the
callers much less error prone.

* jk/config-parsing-cleanup:
  reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback
  help: use parse_config_key for man config
  submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing
  submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  userdiff: drop parse_driver function
  convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key
  archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config
  config: add helper function for parsing key names

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 94ffcda8f6..9038fb500e 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1170,6 +1170,21 @@ struct config_include_data {
 #define CONFIG_INCLUDE_INIT { 0 }
 extern int git_config_include(const char *name, const char *value, void *data);
 
+/*
+ * Match and parse a config key of the form:
+ *
+ *   section.(subsection.)?key
+ *
+ * (i.e., what gets handed to a config_fn_t). The caller provides the section;
+ * we return -1 if it does not match, 0 otherwise. The subsection and key
+ * out-parameters are filled by the function (and subsection is NULL if it is
+ * missing).
+ */
+extern int parse_config_key(const char *var,
+			    const char *section,
+			    const char **subsection, int *subsection_len,
+			    const char **key);
+
 extern int committer_ident_sufficiently_given(void);
 extern int author_ident_sufficiently_given(void);