add sorting infrastructure for list refs

Since we store lists of refs as linked lists, we can use
llist_mergesort to efficiently sort them.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/remote.h b/remote.h
index 9ad8eb6cc..251d8fd96 100644
--- a/remote.h
+++ b/remote.h
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ extern const struct refspec *tag_refspec;
 struct ref *alloc_ref(const char *name);
 struct ref *copy_ref(const struct ref *ref);
 struct ref *copy_ref_list(const struct ref *ref);
+void sort_ref_list(struct ref **, int (*cmp)(const void *, const void *));
+int ref_compare_name(const void *, const void *);
 
 int check_ref_type(const struct ref *ref, int flags);