add is_dot_or_dotdot inline function

A new inline function is_dot_or_dotdot is used to check if the
directory name is either "." or "..". It returns a non-zero value if
the given string is "." or "..". It's applicable to a lot of Git
source code.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index 768425af0e..02875ec58b 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ extern int file_exists(const char *);
 extern char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir);
 extern int is_inside_dir(const char *dir);
 
+static inline int is_dot_or_dotdot(const char *name)
+{
+	return (name[0] == '.' &&
+		(name[1] == '\0' ||
+		 (name[1] == '.' && name[2] == '\0')));
+}
+
 extern void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir);
 extern int remove_dir_recursively(struct strbuf *path, int only_empty);