sparse-checkout: load sparse-checkout patterns

A future feature will want to load the sparse-checkout patterns into a
pattern_list, but the current mechanism to do so is a bit complicated.
This is made difficult due to needing to find the sparse-checkout file
in different ways throughout the codebase.

The logic implemented in the new get_sparse_checkout_patterns() was
duplicated in populate_from_existing_patterns() in unpack-trees.c. Use
the new method instead, keeping the logic around handling the struct
unpack_trees_options.

The callers to get_sparse_checkout_filename() in
builtin/sparse-checkout.c manipulate the sparse-checkout file directly,
so it is not appropriate to replace logic in that file with
get_sparse_checkout_patterns().

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index d637461da5..d153a63bbd 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -2998,6 +2998,23 @@ void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir)
 	}
 }
 
+char *get_sparse_checkout_filename(void)
+{
+	return git_pathdup("info/sparse-checkout");
+}
+
+int get_sparse_checkout_patterns(struct pattern_list *pl)
+{
+	int res;
+	char *sparse_filename = get_sparse_checkout_filename();
+
+	pl->use_cone_patterns = core_sparse_checkout_cone;
+	res = add_patterns_from_file_to_list(sparse_filename, "", 0, pl, NULL);
+
+	free(sparse_filename);
+	return res;
+}
+
 int remove_path(const char *name)
 {
 	char *slash;