write_file: add pointer+len variant
There are many callsites which could use write_file, but for
which it is a little awkward because they have a strbuf or
other pointer/len combo. Specifically:
1. write_file() takes a format string, so we have to use
"%s" or "%.*s", which are ugly.
2. Using any form of "%s" does not handle embedded NULs in
the output. That probably doesn't matter for our
call-sites, but it's nicer not to have to worry.
3. It's less efficient; we format into another strbuf
just to do the write. That's probably not measurably
slow for our uses, but it's simply inelegant.
We can fix this by providing a helper to write out the
formatted buffer, and just calling it from write_file().
Note that we don't do the usual "complete with a newline"
that write_file does. If the caller has their own buffer,
there's a reasonable chance they're doing something more
complicated than a single line, and they can call
strbuf_complete_line() themselves.
We could go even further and add strbuf_write_file(), but it
doesn't save much:
- write_file_buf(path, sb.buf, sb.len);
+ strbuf_write_file(&sb, path);
It would also be somewhat asymmetric with strbuf_read_file,
which actually returns errors rather than dying (and the
error handling is most of the benefit of write_file() in the
first place).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>