commit: add commit_stack_init()

Add a function for initializing a struct commit_stack, for when static
initialization is not possible or impractical.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index f2edafa49c..55b1c8d2f8 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -1982,6 +1982,12 @@ int run_commit_hook(int editor_is_used, const char *index_file,
 	return run_hooks_opt(the_repository, name, &opt);
 }
 
+void commit_stack_init(struct commit_stack *stack)
+{
+	stack->items = NULL;
+	stack->nr = stack->alloc = 0;
+}
+
 void commit_stack_push(struct commit_stack *stack, struct commit *commit)
 {
 	ALLOC_GROW(stack->items, stack->nr + 1, stack->alloc);
@@ -1995,6 +2001,6 @@ struct commit *commit_stack_pop(struct commit_stack *stack)
 
 void commit_stack_clear(struct commit_stack *stack)
 {
-	FREE_AND_NULL(stack->items);
-	stack->nr = stack->alloc = 0;
+	free(stack->items);
+	commit_stack_init(stack);
 }
diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index 81e047f820..7c01a76425 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ struct commit_stack {
 };
 #define COMMIT_STACK_INIT { 0 }
 
+void commit_stack_init(struct commit_stack *);
 void commit_stack_push(struct commit_stack *, struct commit *);
 struct commit *commit_stack_pop(struct commit_stack *);
 void commit_stack_clear(struct commit_stack *);