ident.c: add split_ident_line() to parse formatted ident line

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 3a8e1258e7a15e5ffba52ad400d9ae23cedb0982..7c42ecaff836eb0f45259830931d610745a815d2 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -928,6 +928,22 @@ extern const char *fmt_name(const char *name, const char *email);
 extern const char *git_editor(void);
 extern const char *git_pager(int stdout_is_tty);
 
+struct ident_split {
+       const char *name_begin;
+       const char *name_end;
+       const char *mail_begin;
+       const char *mail_end;
+       const char *date_begin;
+       const char *date_end;
+       const char *tz_begin;
+       const char *tz_end;
+};
+/*
+ * Signals an success with 0, but time part of the result may be NULL
+ * if the input lacks timestamp and zone
+ */
+extern int split_ident_line(struct ident_split *, const char *, int);
+
 struct checkout {
        const char *base_dir;
        int base_dir_len;