This function was used in the ref-filter.c code to find the longest
common prefix of among a set of refspecs, and then to iterate all of the
references that descend from that prefix.
A future patch will want to use that same code from ls-refs.c, so
prepare by exposing and moving it to refs.c. Since there is nothing
specific to the ref-filter code here (other than that it was previously
the only caller of this function), this really belongs in the more
generic refs.h header.
The code moved in this patch is identical before and after, with the one
exception of renaming some arguments to be consistent with other
functions exposed in refs.h.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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