move index_has_changes() from builtin/am.c to merge.c for reuse

index_has_changes() is a function we want to reuse outside of just am,
making it also available for merge-recursive and merge-ort.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 6440e2bf21..caf610d3b3 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -608,6 +608,15 @@ extern int write_locked_index(struct index_state *, struct lock_file *lock, unsi
 extern int discard_index(struct index_state *);
 extern void move_index_extensions(struct index_state *dst, struct index_state *src);
 extern int unmerged_index(const struct index_state *);
+
+/**
+ * Returns 1 if the index differs from HEAD, 0 otherwise. When on an unborn
+ * branch, returns 1 if there are entries in the index, 0 otherwise. If an
+ * strbuf is provided, the space-separated list of files that differ will be
+ * appended to it.
+ */
+extern int index_has_changes(struct strbuf *sb);
+
 extern int verify_path(const char *path);
 extern int strcmp_offset(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t *first_change);
 extern int index_dir_exists(struct index_state *istate, const char *name, int namelen);