lockfile.c: add a new public function unable_to_lock_message

Introducing a new unable_to_lock_message helper, which has nicer
semantics than unable_to_lock_error and cleans up lockfile.c a little.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index cbe1935ba6b17b6ccc37a400ea7cf0f67830e1d0..8b12aa8766b99c8f505dcc8fdc404712ac3f5b82 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -559,6 +559,8 @@ struct lock_file {
 #define LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR 1
 #define LOCK_NODEREF 2
 extern int unable_to_lock_error(const char *path, int err);
+extern void unable_to_lock_message(const char *path, int err,
+                                  struct strbuf *buf);
 extern NORETURN void unable_to_lock_index_die(const char *path, int err);
 extern int hold_lock_file_for_update(struct lock_file *, const char *path, int);
 extern int hold_lock_file_for_append(struct lock_file *, const char *path, int);

diff --git a/lockfile.c b/lockfile.c
index 8fbcb6a98aae85b48c6f8de29c6f95af58823411..464031bf1ca6cd389e47ce35f87edb26d528ca00 100644 (file)
--- a/lockfile.c
+++ b/lockfile.c
@@ -157,33 +157,35 @@ static int lock_file(struct lock_file *lk, const char *path, int flags)
        return lk->fd;
 }
 
-static char *unable_to_lock_message(const char *path, int err)
+void unable_to_lock_message(const char *path, int err, struct strbuf *buf)
 {
-       struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
-
        if (err == EEXIST) {
-               strbuf_addf(&buf, "Unable to create '%s.lock': %s.\n\n"
+               strbuf_addf(buf, "Unable to create '%s.lock': %s.\n\n"
                    "If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a\n"
                    "git process crashed in this repository earlier. Make sure no other git\n"
                    "process is running and remove the file manually to continue.",
                            absolute_path(path), strerror(err));
        } else
-               strbuf_addf(&buf, "Unable to create '%s.lock': %s",
+               strbuf_addf(buf, "Unable to create '%s.lock': %s",
                            absolute_path(path), strerror(err));
-       return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
 }
 
 int unable_to_lock_error(const char *path, int err)
 {
-       char *msg = unable_to_lock_message(path, err);
-       error("%s", msg);
-       free(msg);
+       struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+       unable_to_lock_message(path, err, &buf);
+       error("%s", buf.buf);
+       strbuf_release(&buf);
        return -1;
 }
 
 NORETURN void unable_to_lock_index_die(const char *path, int err)
 {
-       die("%s", unable_to_lock_message(path, err));
+       struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+       unable_to_lock_message(path, err, &buf);
+       die("%s", buf.buf);
 }
 
 int hold_lock_file_for_update(struct lock_file *lk, const char *path, int flags)