[JGIT PATCH 1/5] Expose RawParseUtils.match to application callers

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

This utility can be useful when parsing a buffer directly, such as
for a commit or tag object's header lines.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 .../src/org/spearce/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java   |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java
index dbc2e83..2ab3bfe 100644
--- a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java
+++ b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java
@@ -61,7 +61,18 @@
 			digits[i] = (byte) (i - '0');
 	}
 
-	private static final int match(final byte[] b, int ptr, final byte[] src) {
+	/**
+	 * Determine if b[ptr] matches src.
+	 * 
+	 * @param b
+	 *            the buffer to scan.
+	 * @param ptr
+	 *            first position within b, this should match src[0].
+	 * @param src
+	 *            the buffer to test for equality with b.
+	 * @return ptr += src.length if b[ptr..src.length] == src; else -1.
+	 */
+	public static final int match(final byte[] b, int ptr, final byte[] src) {
 		if (ptr + src.length >= b.length)
 			return -1;
 		for (int i = 0; i < src.length; i++, ptr++)
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