hex: introduce parse_oid_hex

Introduce a function, parse_oid_hex, which parses a hexadecimal object
ID and if successful, sets a pointer to just beyond the last character.
This allows for simpler, more robust parsing without needing to
hard-code integer values throughout the codebase.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hex.c b/hex.c
index 845b01a874..eab7b626ee 100644
--- a/hex.c
+++ b/hex.c
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ int get_oid_hex(const char *hex, struct object_id *oid)
 	return get_sha1_hex(hex, oid->hash);
 }
 
+int parse_oid_hex(const char *hex, struct object_id *oid, const char **end)
+{
+	int ret = get_oid_hex(hex, oid);
+	if (!ret)
+		*end = hex + GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ;
+	return ret;
+}
+
 char *sha1_to_hex_r(char *buffer, const unsigned char *sha1)
 {
 	static const char hex[] = "0123456789abcdef";