From 7365c95d2d67cbbb74c2040918d2ecde06231d93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:07:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mergesort: rename it to llist_mergesort()

Even though the function is generic enough, <anything>sort() inherits
connotations from the standard function qsort() that sorts an array.
Rename it to llist_mergesort() and describe the external interface in
its header file.

This incidentally avoids name clashes with mergesort() some platforms
declare in, and contaminate user namespace with, their <stdlib.h>.

Reported-by: Brian Gernhardt
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 commit.c         |  4 ++--
 mergesort.c      |  8 ++++----
 mergesort.h      | 16 ++++++++++++----
 test-mergesort.c |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 0759b2ca6..84304c00f 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -429,8 +429,8 @@ static void commit_list_set_next(void *a, void *next)
 
 void commit_list_sort_by_date(struct commit_list **list)
 {
-	*list = mergesort(*list, commit_list_get_next, commit_list_set_next,
-			  commit_list_compare_by_date);
+	*list = llist_mergesort(*list, commit_list_get_next, commit_list_set_next,
+				commit_list_compare_by_date);
 }
 
 struct commit *pop_most_recent_commit(struct commit_list **list,
diff --git a/mergesort.c b/mergesort.c
index d084c602d..e5fdf2ee4 100644
--- a/mergesort.c
+++ b/mergesort.c
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ static void *pop_item(struct mergesort_sublist *l,
 	return p;
 }
 
-void *mergesort(void *list,
-		void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
-		void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
-		int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *))
+void *llist_mergesort(void *list,
+		      void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
+		      void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
+		      int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *))
 {
 	unsigned long l;
 
diff --git a/mergesort.h b/mergesort.h
index d6e5f4a73..644cff1f9 100644
--- a/mergesort.h
+++ b/mergesort.h
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 #ifndef MERGESORT_H
 #define MERGESORT_H
 
-void *mergesort(void *list,
-		void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
-		void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
-		int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *));
+/*
+ * Sort linked list in place.
+ * - get_next_fn() returns the next element given an element of a linked list.
+ * - set_next_fn() takes two elements A and B, and makes B the "next" element
+ *   of A on the list.
+ * - compare_fn() takes two elements A and B, and returns negative, 0, positive
+ *   as the same sign as "subtracting" B from A.
+ */
+void *llist_mergesort(void *list,
+		      void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
+		      void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
+		      int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *));
 
 #endif
diff --git a/test-mergesort.c b/test-mergesort.c
index 1dd82fd67..3f388b4ce 100644
--- a/test-mergesort.c
+++ b/test-mergesort.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 		p = line;
 	}
 
-	lines = mergesort(lines, get_next, set_next, compare_strings);
+	lines = llist_mergesort(lines, get_next, set_next, compare_strings);
 
 	while (lines) {
 		printf("%s", lines->text);