Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7

[git.git] / Documentation / technical / api-string-list.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
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--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
 
 . Can sort an unsorted list using `sort_string_list`.
 
+. Can remove individual items of an unsorted list using
+  `unsorted_string_list_delete_item`.
+
 . Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`.
 
 Example:
@@ -112,6 +115,13 @@ write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`.
 The above two functions need to look through all items, as opposed to their
 counterpart for sorted lists, which performs a binary search.
 
+`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`::
+
+       Remove an item from a string_list. The `string` pointer of the items
+       will be freed in case the `strdup_strings` member of the string_list
+       is set. The third parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the
+       items should be freed or not.
+
 Data structures
 ---------------