string-list: optionally omit empty string pieces in string_list_split*()

Teach the unified split_string() machinery a new flag bit,
STRING_LIST_SPLIT_NONEMPTY, to cause empty split pieces to be
omitted from the resulting string list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/string-list.c b/string-list.c
index 86a309f8fb..343cf1ca90 100644
--- a/string-list.c
+++ b/string-list.c
@@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ static int append_one(struct string_list *list,
 				break;
 	}
 
+	if ((flags & STRING_LIST_SPLIT_NONEMPTY) && (end <= p))
+		return 0;
+
 	if (in_place) {
 		*((char *)end) = '\0';
 		string_list_append(list, p);