Subject: [PATCHv3 3/4] cache.h: document add_[file_]to_index

From: Stefan Beller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:18:53 -0800

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <[email-masked]>
---
 cache.h | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 929474d7a9..12394eb541 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -614,8 +614,18 @@ extern int remove_file_from_index(struct index_state *, const char *path);
 #define ADD_CACHE_IGNORE_ERRORS	4
 #define ADD_CACHE_IGNORE_REMOVAL 8
 #define ADD_CACHE_INTENT 16
+/*
+ * These two are used to add the contents of the file at path
+ * to the index, marking the working tree up-to-date by storing
+ * the cached stat info in the resulting cache entry.  A caller
+ * that has already run lstat(2) on the path can call
+ * add_to_index(), and all others can call add_file_to_index();
+ * the latter will do necessary lstat(2) internally before
+ * calling the former.
+ */
 extern int add_to_index(struct index_state *, const char *path, struct stat *, int flags);
 extern int add_file_to_index(struct index_state *, const char *path, int flags);
+
 extern struct cache_entry *make_cache_entry(unsigned int mode, const unsigned char *sha1, const char *path, int stage, unsigned int refresh_options);
 extern int chmod_index_entry(struct index_state *, struct cache_entry *ce, char flip);
 extern int ce_same_name(const struct cache_entry *a, const struct cache_entry *b);
-- 
2.11.0.299.g762782ba8a