merge-ll: rename from ll-merge

A long term (but rather minor) pet-peeve of mine was the name
ll-merge.[ch].  I thought it made it harder to realize what stuff was
related to merging when I was working on the merge machinery and trying
to improve it.

Further, back in d1cbe1e6d8a ("hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove
dependency on repository.h", 2023-04-22), we have split the portions of
hash.h that do not depend upon repository.h into a "hash-ll.h" (due to
the recommendation to use "ll" for "low-level" in its name[1], but which
I used as a suffix precisely because of my distaste for "ll-merge").
When we discussed adding additional "*-ll.h" files, a request was made
that we use "ll" consistently as either a prefix or a suffix.  Since it
is already in use as both a prefix and a suffix, the only way to do so
is to rename some files.

Besides my distaste for the ll-merge.[ch] name, let me also note that
the files
  ll-fsmonitor.h, ll-hash.h, ll-merge.h, ll-object-store.h, ll-read-cache.h
would have essentially nothing to do with each other and make no sense
to group.  But giving them the common "ll-" prefix would group them.  Using
"-ll" as a suffix thus seems just much more logical to me.  Rename
ll-merge.[ch] to merge-ll.[ch] to achieve this consistency, and to
ensure we get a more logical grouping of files.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/kl6lsfcu1g8w.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com/

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

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+/*
+ * Low level 3-way in-core file merge.
+ */
+
+#ifndef LL_MERGE_H
+#define LL_MERGE_H
+
+#include "xdiff/xdiff.h"
+
+/**
+ *
+ * Calling sequence:
+ * ----------------
+ *
+ * - Prepare a `struct ll_merge_options` to record options.
+ *   If you have no special requests, skip this and pass `NULL`
+ *   as the `opts` parameter to use the default options.
+ *
+ * - Allocate an mmbuffer_t variable for the result.
+ *
+ * - Allocate and fill variables with the file's original content
+ *   and two modified versions (using `read_mmfile`, for example).
+ *
+ * - Call `ll_merge()`.
+ *
+ * - Read the merged content from `result_buf.ptr` and `result_buf.size`.
+ *
+ * - Release buffers when finished.  A simple
+ *   `free(ancestor.ptr); free(ours.ptr); free(theirs.ptr);
+ *   free(result_buf.ptr);` will do.
+ *
+ * If the modifications do not merge cleanly, `ll_merge` will return a
+ * nonzero value and `result_buf` will generally include a description of
+ * the conflict bracketed by markers such as the traditional `<<<<<<<`
+ * and `>>>>>>>`.
+ *
+ * The `ancestor_label`, `our_label`, and `their_label` parameters are
+ * used to label the different sides of a conflict if the merge driver
+ * supports this.
+ */
+
+
+struct index_state;
+
+/**
+ * This describes the set of options the calling program wants to affect
+ * the operation of a low-level (single file) merge.
+ */
+struct ll_merge_options {
+
+	/**
+	 * Behave as though this were part of a merge between common ancestors in
+	 * a recursive merge (merges of binary files may need to be handled
+	 * differently in such cases, for example). If a helper program is
+	 * specified by the `[merge "<driver>"] recursive` configuration, it will
+	 * be used.
+	 */
+	unsigned virtual_ancestor : 1;
+
+	/**
+	 * Resolve local conflicts automatically in favor of one side or the other
+	 * (as in 'git merge-file' `--ours`/`--theirs`/`--union`).  Can be `0`,
+	 * `XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_OURS`, `XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_THEIRS`,
+	 * or `XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_UNION`.
+	 */
+	unsigned variant : 2;
+
+	/**
+	 * Resmudge and clean the "base", "theirs" and "ours" files before merging.
+	 * Use this when the merge is likely to have overlapped with a change in
+	 * smudge/clean or end-of-line normalization rules.
+	 */
+	unsigned renormalize : 1;
+
+	/**
+	 * Increase the length of conflict markers so that nested conflicts
+	 * can be differentiated.
+	 */
+	unsigned extra_marker_size;
+
+	/* Extra xpparam_t flags as defined in xdiff/xdiff.h. */
+	long xdl_opts;
+};
+
+enum ll_merge_result {
+	LL_MERGE_ERROR = -1,
+	LL_MERGE_OK = 0,
+	LL_MERGE_CONFLICT,
+	LL_MERGE_BINARY_CONFLICT,
+};
+
+/**
+ * Perform a three-way single-file merge in core.  This is a thin wrapper
+ * around `xdl_merge` that takes the path and any merge backend specified in
+ * `.gitattributes` or `.git/info/attributes` into account.
+ * Returns 0 for a clean merge.
+ */
+enum ll_merge_result ll_merge(mmbuffer_t *result_buf,
+	     const char *path,
+	     mmfile_t *ancestor, const char *ancestor_label,
+	     mmfile_t *ours, const char *our_label,
+	     mmfile_t *theirs, const char *their_label,
+	     struct index_state *istate,
+	     const struct ll_merge_options *opts);
+
+int ll_merge_marker_size(struct index_state *istate, const char *path);
+void reset_merge_attributes(void);
+
+#endif