Generalize and libify index_is_dirty() to index_differs_from(...)

index_is_dirty() in builtin-revert.c checks if the index is dirty.
This patch generalizes this function to check if the index differs
from a revision, i.e. the former index_is_dirty() behavior can now be
achieved by index_differs_from("HEAD", 0).

The second argument "diff_flags" allows to set further diff option
flags like DIFF_OPT_IGNORE_SUBMODULES. See DIFF_OPT_* macros in diff.h
for a list.

index_differs_from() seems to be useful for more than builtin-revert.c,
so it is moved into diff-lib.c and also used in builtin-commit.c.

Yet to mention:

 - "rev.abbrev = 0;" can be safely removed.
   This has no impact on performance or functioning of neither
   setup_revisions() nor run_diff_index().

 - rev.pending.objects is free()d because this fixes a leak.
   (Also see 295dd2ad "Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list")

Mentored-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/diff-lib.c b/diff-lib.c
index a41e1ec07c..79d0606834 100644
--- a/diff-lib.c
+++ b/diff-lib.c
@@ -513,3 +513,18 @@ int do_diff_cache(const unsigned char *tree_sha1, struct diff_options *opt)
 		exit(128);
 	return 0;
 }
+
+int index_differs_from(const char *def, int diff_flags)
+{
+	struct rev_info rev;
+
+	init_revisions(&rev, NULL);
+	setup_revisions(0, NULL, &rev, def);
+	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, QUIET);
+	DIFF_OPT_SET(&rev.diffopt, EXIT_WITH_STATUS);
+	rev.diffopt.flags |= diff_flags;
+	run_diff_index(&rev, 1);
+	if (rev.pending.alloc)
+		free(rev.pending.objects);
+	return (DIFF_OPT_TST(&rev.diffopt, HAS_CHANGES) != 0);
+}