Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
/**
* Read the contents of a file, specified by its path. The third argument
* can be used to give a hint about the file size, to avoid reallocs.
+ * Return the number of bytes read or a negative value if some error
+ * occurred while opening or reading the file.
*/
extern ssize_t strbuf_read_file(struct strbuf *sb, const char *path, size_t hint);