abspath: add absolute_pathdup()

Add a function that returns a buffer containing the absolute path of its
argument and a semantic patch for its intended use.  It avoids an extra
string copy to a static buffer.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 1ec9021a7..f481e61f6 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ int is_directory(const char *);
 const char *real_path(const char *path);
 const char *real_path_if_valid(const char *path);
 const char *absolute_path(const char *path);
+char *absolute_pathdup(const char *path);
 const char *remove_leading_path(const char *in, const char *prefix);
 const char *relative_path(const char *in, const char *prefix, struct strbuf *sb);
 int normalize_path_copy_len(char *dst, const char *src, int *prefix_len);