Merge branch 'development'v0.17.0

Conflicts:
	.travis.yml

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/git2/blob.h b/include/git2/blob.h
index 8b9380d82..551770678 100644
--- a/include/git2/blob.h
+++ b/include/git2/blob.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (C) 2009-2011 the libgit2 contributors
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2012 the libgit2 contributors
  *
  * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
  * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ GIT_BEGIN_DECL
  * @param blob pointer to the looked up blob
  * @param repo the repo to use when locating the blob.
  * @param id identity of the blob to locate.
- * @return GIT_SUCCESS or an error code
+ * @return 0 or an error code
  */
 GIT_INLINE(int) git_blob_lookup(git_blob **blob, git_repository *repo, const git_oid *id)
 {
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ GIT_INLINE(int) git_blob_lookup(git_blob **blob, git_repository *repo, const git
  * @param repo the repo to use when locating the blob.
  * @param id identity of the blob to locate.
  * @param len the length of the short identifier
- * @return GIT_SUCCESS or an error code
+ * @return 0 or an error code
  */
 GIT_INLINE(int) git_blob_lookup_prefix(git_blob **blob, git_repository *repo, const git_oid *id, unsigned int len)
 {
@@ -99,10 +99,22 @@ GIT_EXTERN(size_t) git_blob_rawsize(git_blob *blob);
  *	this repository cannot be bare
  * @param path file from which the blob will be created,
  *	relative to the repository's working dir
- * @return GIT_SUCCESS or an error code
+ * @return 0 or an error code
  */
 GIT_EXTERN(int) git_blob_create_fromfile(git_oid *oid, git_repository *repo, const char *path);
 
+/**
+ * Read a file from the filesystem and write its content
+ * to the Object Database as a loose blob
+ *
+ * @param oid return the id of the written blob
+ * @param repo repository where the blob will be written.
+ *	this repository can be bare or not
+ * @param path file from which the blob will be created
+ * @return 0 or an error code
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_blob_create_fromdisk(git_oid *oid, git_repository *repo, const char *path);
+
 
 /**
  * Write an in-memory buffer to the ODB as a blob
@@ -111,7 +123,7 @@ GIT_EXTERN(int) git_blob_create_fromfile(git_oid *oid, git_repository *repo, con
  * @param repo repository where to blob will be written
  * @param buffer data to be written into the blob
  * @param len length of the data
- * @return GIT_SUCCESS or an error code
+ * @return 0 or an error code
  */
 GIT_EXTERN(int) git_blob_create_frombuffer(git_oid *oid, git_repository *repo, const void *buffer, size_t len);