convert "enum date_mode" into a struct

In preparation for adding date modes that may carry extra
information beyond the mode itself, this patch converts the
date_mode enum into a struct.

Most of the conversion is fairly straightforward; we pass
the struct as a pointer and dereference the type field where
necessary. Locations that declare a date_mode can use a "{}"
constructor.  However, the tricky case is where we use the
enum labels as constants, like:

  show_date(t, tz, DATE_NORMAL);

Ideally we could say:

  show_date(t, tz, &{ DATE_NORMAL });

but of course C does not allow that. Likewise, we cannot
cast the constant to a struct, because we need to pass an
actual address. Our options are basically:

  1. Manually add a "struct date_mode d = { DATE_NORMAL }"
     definition to each caller, and pass "&d". This makes
     the callers uglier, because they sometimes do not even
     have their own scope (e.g., they are inside a switch
     statement).

  2. Provide a pre-made global "date_normal" struct that can
     be passed by address. We'd also need "date_rfc2822",
     "date_iso8601", and so forth. But at least the ugliness
     is defined in one place.

  3. Provide a wrapper that generates the correct struct on
     the fly. The big downside is that we end up pointing to
     a single global, which makes our wrapper non-reentrant.
     But show_date is already not reentrant, so it does not
     matter.

This patch implements 3, along with a minor macro to keep
the size of the callers sane.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 254477fd1d..7314f33885 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 				_("%s"
 				"Date:      %s"),
 				ident_shown++ ? "" : "\n",
-				show_ident_date(&ai, DATE_NORMAL));
+				show_ident_date(&ai, DATE_MODE(NORMAL)));
 
 		if (!committer_ident_sufficiently_given())
 			status_printf_ln(s, GIT_COLOR_NORMAL,
@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ static const char *find_author_by_nickname(const char *name)
 	commit = get_revision(&revs);
 	if (commit) {
 		struct pretty_print_context ctx = {0};
-		ctx.date_mode = DATE_NORMAL;
+		ctx.date_mode.type = DATE_NORMAL;
 		strbuf_release(&buf);
 		format_commit_message(commit, "%aN <%aE>", &buf, &ctx);
 		clear_mailmap(&mailmap);