sequencer: export and rename subject_length()

This function can be used in other parts of git. Let's move the
function to commit.c and also rename it to make the name of the
function more generic.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Mentored-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index bab8d5ab07..199c7e274c 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -535,6 +535,20 @@ int find_commit_subject(const char *commit_buffer, const char **subject)
 	return eol - p;
 }
 
+size_t commit_subject_length(const char *body)
+{
+	const char *p = body;
+	while (*p) {
+		const char *next = skip_blank_lines(p);
+		if (next != p)
+			break;
+		p = strchrnul(p, '\n');
+		if (*p)
+			p++;
+	}
+	return p - body;
+}
+
 struct commit_list *commit_list_insert(struct commit *item, struct commit_list **list_p)
 {
 	struct commit_list *new_list = xmalloc(sizeof(struct commit_list));