On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 06:17:28PM -0800, Taylor Blau wrote:
> In preparation for adding `--color` to the `git-config(1)` builtin,
> let's introduce a color parsing utility, `git_config_color` in a similar
> fashion to `git_config_<type>`.
Sounds good...
> @@ -1000,6 +1001,15 @@ int git_config_expiry_date(timestamp_t *timestamp,
> const char *var, const char *
> return 0;
> }
>
> +int git_config_color(char **dest, const char *var, const char *value)
> +{
> + if (!value)
> + return config_error_nonbool(var);
> + if (color_parse(value, *dest) < 0)
> + return -1;
> + return 0;
> +}
Why do we take a pointer-to-pointer here? We don't allocate like
git_config_string() does, but instead fill in the existing buffer.
-Peff