strbuf: make strbuf_getline_crlf() global

Often we read "text" files that are supplied by the end user
(e.g. commit log message that was edited with $GIT_EDITOR upon 'git
commit -e'), and in some environments lines in a text file are
terminated with CRLF.  Existing strbuf_getline() knows to read a
single line and then strip the terminating byte from the result, but
it is handy to have a version that is more tailored for a "text"
input that takes both '\n' and '\r\n' as line terminator (aka
<newline> in POSIX lingo) and returns the body of the line after
stripping <newline>.

Recently reimplemented "git am" uses such a function implemented
privately; move it to strbuf.[ch] and make it available for others.

Note that we do not blindly replace calls to strbuf_getline() that
uses LF as the line terminator with calls to strbuf_getline_crlf()
and this is very much deliberate.  Some callers may want to treat an
incoming line that ends with CR (and terminated with LF) to have a
payload that includes the final CR, and such a blind replacement
will result in misconversion when done without code audit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
index 7123fca7a..d84c866ab 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -388,6 +388,13 @@ extern int strbuf_readlink(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, size_t hint);
  */
 extern int strbuf_getline(struct strbuf *, FILE *, int);
 
+/*
+ * Similar to strbuf_getline(), but uses '\n' as the terminator,
+ * and additionally treats a '\r' that comes immediately before '\n'
+ * as part of the terminator.
+ */
+extern int strbuf_getline_crlf(struct strbuf *, FILE *);
+
 /**
  * Like `strbuf_getline`, but keeps the trailing terminator (if
  * any) in the buffer.