cache API: add a "INDEX_STATE_INIT" macro/function, add release_index()

Hopefully in some not so distant future, we'll get advantages from always
initializing the "repo" member of the "struct index_state". To make
that easier let's introduce an initialization macro & function.

The various ad-hoc initialization of the structure can then be changed
over to it, and we can remove the various "0" assignments in
discard_index() in favor of calling index_state_init() at the end.

While not strictly necessary, let's also change the CALLOC_ARRAY() of
various "struct index_state *" to use an ALLOC_ARRAY() followed by
index_state_init() instead.

We're then adding the release_index() function and converting some
callers (including some of these allocations) over to it if they
either won't need to use their "struct index_state" again, or are just
about to call index_state_init().

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 21ed9633b2..be28fce12a 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -360,6 +360,19 @@ struct index_state {
 	struct pattern_list *sparse_checkout_patterns;
 };
 
+/**
+ * A "struct index_state istate" must be initialized with
+ * INDEX_STATE_INIT or the corresponding index_state_init().
+ *
+ * If the variable won't be used again, use release_index() to free()
+ * its resources. If it needs to be used again use discard_index(),
+ * which does the same thing, but will use use index_state_init() at
+ * the end.
+ */
+#define INDEX_STATE_INIT { 0 }
+void index_state_init(struct index_state *istate);
+void release_index(struct index_state *istate);
+
 /* Name hashing */
 int test_lazy_init_name_hash(struct index_state *istate, int try_threaded);
 void add_name_hash(struct index_state *istate, struct cache_entry *ce);