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    hashmap.h: compare function has access to a data field · 7663cdc8
    Stefan Beller authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    When using the hashmap a common need is to have access to caller provided
    data in the compare function. A couple of times we abuse the keydata field
    to pass in the data needed. This happens for example in patch-ids.c.
    
    This patch changes the function signature of the compare function
    to have one more void pointer available. The pointer given for each
    invocation of the compare function must be defined in the init function
    of the hashmap and is just passed through.
    
    Documentation of this new feature is deferred to a later patch.
    This is a rather mechanical conversion, just adding the new pass-through
    parameter.  However while at it improve the naming of the fields of all
    compare functions used by hashmaps by ensuring unused parameters are
    prefixed with 'unused_' and naming the parameters what they are (instead
    of 'unused' make it 'unused_keydata').
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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