abspath.h: move absolute path functions from cache.h

This is another step towards letting us remove the include of cache.h in
strbuf.c.  It does mean that we also need to add includes of abspath.h
in a number of C files.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/abspath.h b/abspath.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7cd3de5e9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/abspath.h
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+#ifndef ABSPATH_H
+#define ABSPATH_H
+
+int is_directory(const char *);
+char *strbuf_realpath(struct strbuf *resolved, const char *path,
+		      int die_on_error);
+char *strbuf_realpath_forgiving(struct strbuf *resolved, const char *path,
+				int die_on_error);
+char *real_pathdup(const char *path, int die_on_error);
+const char *absolute_path(const char *path);
+char *absolute_pathdup(const char *path);
+
+/*
+ * Concatenate "prefix" (if len is non-zero) and "path", with no
+ * connecting characters (so "prefix" should end with a "/").
+ * Unlike prefix_path, this should be used if the named file does
+ * not have to interact with index entry; i.e. name of a random file
+ * on the filesystem.
+ *
+ * The return value is always a newly allocated string (even if the
+ * prefix was empty).
+ */
+char *prefix_filename(const char *prefix, const char *path);
+
+/* Likewise, but path=="-" always yields "-" */
+char *prefix_filename_except_for_dash(const char *prefix, const char *path);
+
+static inline int is_absolute_path(const char *path)
+{
+	return is_dir_sep(path[0]) || has_dos_drive_prefix(path);
+}
+
+#endif /* ABSPATH_H */