Support showing notes from more than one notes tree

With this patch, you can set notes.displayRef to a glob that points at
your favourite notes refs, e.g.,

[notes]
	displayRef = refs/notes/*

Then git-log and friends will show notes from all trees.

Thanks to Junio C Hamano for lots of feedback, which greatly
influenced the design of the entire series and this commit in
particular.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/notes.h b/notes.h
index bad03ccab7..2cc07409db 100644
--- a/notes.h
+++ b/notes.h
@@ -198,4 +198,59 @@ void free_notes(struct notes_tree *t);
 void format_note(struct notes_tree *t, const unsigned char *object_sha1,
 		struct strbuf *sb, const char *output_encoding, int flags);
 
+
+struct string_list;
+
+struct display_notes_opt {
+	int suppress_default_notes:1;
+	struct string_list *extra_notes_refs;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Load the notes machinery for displaying several notes trees.
+ *
+ * If 'opt' is not NULL, then it specifies additional settings for the
+ * displaying:
+ *
+ * - suppress_default_notes indicates that the notes from
+ *   core.notesRef and notes.displayRef should not be loaded.
+ *
+ * - extra_notes_refs may contain a list of globs (in the same style
+ *   as notes.displayRef) where notes should be loaded from.
+ */
+void init_display_notes(struct display_notes_opt *opt);
+
+/*
+ * Append notes for the given 'object_sha1' from all trees set up by
+ * init_display_notes() to 'sb'.  The 'flags' are a bitwise
+ * combination of
+ *
+ * - NOTES_SHOW_HEADER: add a 'Notes (refname):' header
+ *
+ * - NOTES_INDENT: indent the notes by 4 places
+ *
+ * You *must* call init_display_notes() before using this function.
+ */
+void format_display_notes(const unsigned char *object_sha1,
+			  struct strbuf *sb, const char *output_encoding, int flags);
+
+/*
+ * Load the notes tree from each ref listed in 'refs'.  The output is
+ * an array of notes_tree*, terminated by a NULL.
+ */
+struct notes_tree **load_notes_trees(struct string_list *refs);
+
+/*
+ * Add all refs that match 'glob' to the 'list'.
+ */
+void string_list_add_refs_by_glob(struct string_list *list, const char *glob);
+
+/*
+ * Add all refs from a colon-separated glob list 'globs' to the end of
+ * 'list'.  Empty components are ignored.  This helper is used to
+ * parse GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF style environment variables.
+ */
+void string_list_add_refs_from_colon_sep(struct string_list *list,
+					 const char *globs);
+
 #endif