refactor argv_array into generic code

The submodule code recently grew generic code to build a
dynamic argv array. Many other parts of the code can reuse
this, too, so let's make it generically available.

There are two enhancements not found in the original code:

  1. We now handle the NULL-termination invariant properly,
     even when no strings have been pushed (before, you
     could have an empty, NULL argv). This was not a problem
     for the submodule code, which always pushed at least
     one argument, but was not sufficiently safe for
     generic code.

  2. There is a formatted variant of the "push" function.
     This is a convenience function which was not needed by
     the submodule code, but will make it easier to port
     other users to the new code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/argv-array.h b/argv-array.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74dd2b1bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/argv-array.h
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#ifndef ARGV_ARRAY_H
+#define ARGV_ARRAY_H
+
+extern const char **empty_argv;
+
+struct argv_array {
+	const char **argv;
+	int argc;
+	int alloc;
+};
+
+#define ARGV_ARRAY_INIT { empty_argv, 0, 0 }
+
+void argv_array_init(struct argv_array *);
+void argv_array_push(struct argv_array *, const char *);
+__attribute__((format (printf,2,3)))
+void argv_array_pushf(struct argv_array *, const char *fmt, ...);
+void argv_array_clear(struct argv_array *);
+
+#endif /* ARGV_ARRAY_H */