commit: helper methods to reduce redundant blocks of code

* builtin/commit.c: Replace block of code with a one-liner call to
  logmsg_reencode().

* commit.c: new function for looking up a comit by name

* pretty.c: helper methods for getting output encodings

  Add helpers get_log_output_encoding() and
  get_commit_output_encoding() that eliminate some messy and duplicate
  if-blocks.

Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index 9113bbe48..a0b710f84 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct commit *lookup_commit(const unsigned char *sha1);
 struct commit *lookup_commit_reference(const unsigned char *sha1);
 struct commit *lookup_commit_reference_gently(const unsigned char *sha1,
 					      int quiet);
+struct commit *lookup_commit_reference_by_name(const char *name);
 
 int parse_commit_buffer(struct commit *item, void *buffer, unsigned long size);