builtin/commit: refactor --trailer logic

git-commit adds user trailers to the commit message by passing its
`--trailer` arguments to a child process running `git-interpret-trailers
--in-place`. This logic is broadly useful, not just for git-commit but
for other commands constructing message bodies (e.g. git-tag).

Let's move this logic from git-commit to a new function in the trailer
API, so that it can be re-used in other commands.

Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Passaro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: jpassaro

builtin/commit.c

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "commit-reach.h"
 #include "commit-graph.h"
 #include "pretty.h"
+#include "trailer.h"
 
 static const char * const builtin_commit_usage[] = {
 	N_("git commit [-a | --interactive | --patch] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend]\n"
@@ -1030,14 +1031,7 @@ static int prepare_to_commit(const char *index_file, const char *prefix,
 	fclose(s->fp);
 
 	if (trailer_args.nr) {
-		struct child_process run_trailer = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
-
-		strvec_pushl(&run_trailer.args, "interpret-trailers",
-			     "--in-place", "--no-divider",
-			     git_path_commit_editmsg(), NULL);
-		strvec_pushv(&run_trailer.args, trailer_args.v);
-		run_trailer.git_cmd = 1;
-		if (run_command(&run_trailer))
+		if (amend_file_with_trailers(git_path_commit_editmsg(), &trailer_args))
 			die(_("unable to pass trailers to --trailers"));
 		strvec_clear(&trailer_args);
 	}

trailer.c

@@ -1170,3 +1170,15 @@ void trailer_iterator_release(struct trailer_iterator *iter)
 	strbuf_release(&iter->val);
 	strbuf_release(&iter->key);
 }
+
+int amend_file_with_trailers(const char *path, const struct strvec *trailer_args)
+{
+	struct child_process run_trailer = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+
+	run_trailer.git_cmd = 1;
+	strvec_pushl(&run_trailer.args, "interpret-trailers",
+		     "--in-place", "--no-divider",
+		     path, NULL);
+	strvec_pushv(&run_trailer.args, trailer_args->v);
+	return run_command(&run_trailer);
+}

trailer.h

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #include "list.h"
 #include "strbuf.h"
 
+struct strvec;
+
 enum trailer_where {
 	WHERE_DEFAULT,
 	WHERE_END,
@@ -158,4 +160,11 @@ int trailer_iterator_advance(struct trailer_iterator *iter);
  */
 void trailer_iterator_release(struct trailer_iterator *iter);
 
+/*
+ * Augment a file to add trailers to it by running git-interpret-trailers.
+ * This calls run_command() and its return value is the same (i.e. 0 for
+ * success, various non-zero for other errors). See run-command.h.
+ */
+int amend_file_with_trailers(const char *path, const struct strvec *trailer_args);
+
 #endif /* TRAILER_H */