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authorVicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>2011-02-28 12:12:26 +0200
committerVicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>2011-03-03 20:23:52 +0200
commit5de079b86dcf8744f71fa3d0bb496a2cf9b20c0d (patch)
tree3bfac650e63c3d924d0e64638d1254fc4ee13f63 /src/git2/refs.h
parent3dccfed16382c64370dd0fd88668c9d9accae6ed (diff)
downloadlibgit2-5de079b86dcf8744f71fa3d0bb496a2cf9b20c0d.tar.gz
Change the object creation/lookup API
The methods previously known as git_repository_lookup git_repository_newobject git_repository_lookup_ref are now part of their respective namespaces: git_object_lookup git_object_new git_reference_lookup This makes the API more consistent with the new references API. Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/src/git2/refs.h b/src/git2/refs.h
index 752d80862..1702d7ee1 100644
--- a/src/git2/refs.h
+++ b/src/git2/refs.h
@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@
GIT_BEGIN_DECL
/**
+ * Lookup a reference by its name in a repository.
+ *
+ * The generated reference is owned by the repository and
+ * should not be freed by the user.
+ *
+ * @param reference_out pointer to the looked-up reference
+ * @param repo the repository to look up the reference
+ * @param name the long name for the reference (e.g. HEAD, ref/heads/master, refs/tags/v0.1.0, ...)
+ * @return 0 on success; error code otherwise
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_reference_lookup(git_reference **reference_out, git_repository *repo, const char *name);
+
+/**
* Create a new symbolic reference.
*
* The reference will be created in the repository and written