[PATCH 02/29] remove_dir_recursively(): add docstring

[Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>]

Add a docstring for the remove_dir_recursively() function and the
REMOVE_DIR_* flags that can be passed to it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
---
 dir.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index 301b737..5f19acc 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -262,9 +262,32 @@ extern int is_empty_dir(const char *dir);
 
 extern void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir);
 
+
+/* Constants for remove_dir_recursively: */
+
+/*
+ * If a non-directory is found within path, stop and return an error.
+ * (In this case some empty directories might already have been
+ * removed.)
+ */
 #define REMOVE_DIR_EMPTY_ONLY 01
+
+/*
+ * If any Git work trees are found within path, skip them without
+ * considering it an error.
+ */
 #define REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_NESTED_GIT 02
+
+/* Remove the contents of path, but leave path itself. */
 #define REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_TOPLEVEL 04
+
+/*
+ * Remove path and its contents, recursively. flags is a combination
+ * of the above REMOVE_DIR_* constants. Return 0 on success.
+ *
+ * This function uses path as temporary scratch space, but restores it
+ * before returning.
+ */
 extern int remove_dir_recursively(struct strbuf *path, int flag);
 
 /* tries to remove the path with empty directories along it, ignores ENOENT */
-- 
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