sparse-checkout: load sparse-checkout patterns

A future feature will want to load the sparse-checkout patterns into a
pattern_list, but the current mechanism to do so is a bit complicated.
This is made difficult due to needing to find the sparse-checkout file
in different ways throughout the codebase.

The logic implemented in the new get_sparse_checkout_patterns() was
duplicated in populate_from_existing_patterns() in unpack-trees.c. Use
the new method instead, keeping the logic around handling the struct
unpack_trees_options.

The callers to get_sparse_checkout_filename() in
builtin/sparse-checkout.c manipulate the sparse-checkout file directly,
so it is not appropriate to replace logic in that file with
get_sparse_checkout_patterns().

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index a3c40dec51..facfae4740 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -448,6 +448,8 @@ int is_empty_dir(const char *dir);
 
 void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir);
 
+char *get_sparse_checkout_filename(void);
+int get_sparse_checkout_patterns(struct pattern_list *pl);
 
 /* Constants for remove_dir_recursively: */