sha1_file: add a "read_sha1_file_repl" function

This new function will replace "read_sha1_file". This latter function
becoming just a stub to call the former will a NULL "replacement"
argument.

This new function is needed because sometimes we need to use the
replacement sha1.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index b8503ad91c..94b12284a2 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -649,7 +649,11 @@ char *strip_path_suffix(const char *path, const char *suffix);
 
 /* Read and unpack a sha1 file into memory, write memory to a sha1 file */
 extern int sha1_object_info(const unsigned char *, unsigned long *);
-extern void * read_sha1_file(const unsigned char *sha1, enum object_type *type, unsigned long *size);
+extern void *read_sha1_file_repl(const unsigned char *sha1, enum object_type *type, unsigned long *size, const unsigned char **replacement);
+static inline void *read_sha1_file(const unsigned char *sha1, enum object_type *type, unsigned long *size)
+{
+	return read_sha1_file_repl(sha1, type, size, NULL);
+}
 extern int hash_sha1_file(const void *buf, unsigned long len, const char *type, unsigned char *sha1);
 extern int write_sha1_file(void *buf, unsigned long len, const char *type, unsigned char *return_sha1);
 extern int pretend_sha1_file(void *, unsigned long, enum object_type, unsigned char *);