Merge commit 'v1.7.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix

* commit 'v1.7.0': (4188 commits)
  Git 1.7.0
  Fix typo in 1.6.6.2 release notes
  Re-fix check-ref-format documentation mark-up
  archive documentation: attributes are taken from the tree by default
  Documentation: minor fixes to RelNotes-1.7.0
  bash: support 'git am's new '--continue' option
  filter-branch: Fix error message for --prune-empty --commit-filter
  am: switch --resolved to --continue
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.0 one more time
  Git 1.6.6.2
  t8003: check exit code of command and error message separately
  check-ref-format documentation: fix enumeration mark-up
  Documentation: quote braces in {upstream} notation
  t3902: Protect against OS X normalization
  blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF
  git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
  Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify
  git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
  Revert "pack-objects: fix pack generation when using pack_size_limit"
  archive: simplify archive format guessing
  ...

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/blob.h b/blob.h
index ea5d9e9f8b..59b394eea3 100644
--- a/blob.h
+++ b/blob.h
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ struct blob *lookup_blob(const unsigned char *sha1);
 
 int parse_blob_buffer(struct blob *item, void *buffer, unsigned long size);
 
-int parse_blob(struct blob *item);
+/**
+ * Blobs do not contain references to other objects and do not have
+ * structured data that needs parsing. However, code may use the
+ * "parsed" bit in the struct object for a blob to determine whether
+ * its content has been found to actually be available, so
+ * parse_blob_buffer() is used (by object.c) to flag that the object
+ * has been read successfully from the database.
+ **/
 
 #endif /* BLOB_H */