strbuf_branchname(): a wrapper for branch name shorthands

The function takes a user-supplied string that is supposed to be a branch
name, and puts it in a strbuf after expanding possible shorthand notation.

A handful of open coded sequence to do this in the existing code have been
changed to use this helper function.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
index 89bd36e15a..68923e1908 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -131,4 +131,6 @@ extern int strbuf_getline(struct strbuf *, FILE *, int);
 extern void stripspace(struct strbuf *buf, int skip_comments);
 extern int launch_editor(const char *path, struct strbuf *buffer, const char *const *env);
 
+extern int strbuf_branchname(struct strbuf *sb, const char *name);
+
 #endif /* STRBUF_H */