config: add --expiry-date

Add --expiry-date as a data-type for config files when
'git config --get' is used. This will return any relative
or fixed dates from config files as timestamps.

This is useful for scripts (e.g. gc.reflogexpire) that work
with timestamps so that '2.weeks' can be converted to a format
acceptable by those scripts/functions.

Following the convention of git_config_pathname(), move
the helper function required for this feature from
builtin/reflog.c to builtin/config.c where other similar
functions exist (e.g. for --bool or --path), and match
the order of parameters with other functions (i.e. output
pointer as first parameter).

Signed-off-by: Haaris Mehmood <hsed@unimetic.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/config.c b/builtin/config.c
index d13daeeb5..ab5f95476 100644
--- a/builtin/config.c
+++ b/builtin/config.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static int show_origin;
 #define TYPE_INT (1<<1)
 #define TYPE_BOOL_OR_INT (1<<2)
 #define TYPE_PATH (1<<3)
+#define TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE (1<<4)
 
 static struct option builtin_config_options[] = {
 	OPT_GROUP(N_("Config file location")),
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ static struct option builtin_config_options[] = {
 	OPT_BIT(0, "int", &types, N_("value is decimal number"), TYPE_INT),
 	OPT_BIT(0, "bool-or-int", &types, N_("value is --bool or --int"), TYPE_BOOL_OR_INT),
 	OPT_BIT(0, "path", &types, N_("value is a path (file or directory name)"), TYPE_PATH),
+	OPT_BIT(0, "expiry-date", &types, N_("value is an expiry date"), TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE),
 	OPT_GROUP(N_("Other")),
 	OPT_BOOL('z', "null", &end_null, N_("terminate values with NUL byte")),
 	OPT_BOOL(0, "name-only", &omit_values, N_("show variable names only")),
@@ -159,6 +161,11 @@ static int format_config(struct strbuf *buf, const char *key_, const char *value
 				return -1;
 			strbuf_addstr(buf, v);
 			free((char *)v);
+		} else if (types == TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE) {
+			timestamp_t t;
+			if (git_config_expiry_date(&t, key_, value_) < 0)
+				return -1;
+			strbuf_addf(buf, "%"PRItime, t);
 		} else if (value_) {
 			strbuf_addstr(buf, value_);
 		} else {
@@ -273,12 +280,13 @@ static char *normalize_value(const char *key, const char *value)
 	if (!value)
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (types == 0 || types == TYPE_PATH)
+	if (types == 0 || types == TYPE_PATH || types == TYPE_EXPIRY_DATE)
 		/*
 		 * We don't do normalization for TYPE_PATH here: If
 		 * the path is like ~/foobar/, we prefer to store
 		 * "~/foobar/" in the config file, and to expand the ~
 		 * when retrieving the value.
+		 * Also don't do normalization for expiry dates.
 		 */
 		return xstrdup(value);
 	if (types == TYPE_INT)
diff --git a/builtin/reflog.c b/builtin/reflog.c
index ab31a3b6a..223372531 100644
--- a/builtin/reflog.c
+++ b/builtin/reflog.c
@@ -416,16 +416,6 @@ static struct reflog_expire_cfg *find_cfg_ent(const char *pattern, size_t len)
 	return ent;
 }
 
-static int parse_expire_cfg_value(const char *var, const char *value, timestamp_t *expire)
-{
-	if (!value)
-		return config_error_nonbool(var);
-	if (parse_expiry_date(value, expire))
-		return error(_("'%s' for '%s' is not a valid timestamp"),
-			     value, var);
-	return 0;
-}
-
 /* expiry timer slot */
 #define EXPIRE_TOTAL   01
 #define EXPIRE_UNREACH 02
@@ -443,11 +433,11 @@ static int reflog_expire_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 
 	if (!strcmp(key, "reflogexpire")) {
 		slot = EXPIRE_TOTAL;
-		if (parse_expire_cfg_value(var, value, &expire))
+		if (git_config_expiry_date(&expire, var, value))
 			return -1;
 	} else if (!strcmp(key, "reflogexpireunreachable")) {
 		slot = EXPIRE_UNREACH;
-		if (parse_expire_cfg_value(var, value, &expire))
+		if (git_config_expiry_date(&expire, var, value))
 			return -1;
 	} else
 		return git_default_config(var, value, cb);