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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDE_sys_git_config_backend_h__
+#define INCLUDE_sys_git_config_backend_h__
+
+#include "git2/common.h"
+#include "git2/types.h"
+#include "git2/config.h"
+
+/**
+ * @file git2/sys/config.h
+ * @brief Git config backend routines
+ * @defgroup git_backend Git custom backend APIs
+ * @ingroup Git
+ * @{
+ */
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * Generic backend that implements the interface to
+ * access a configuration file
+ */
+struct git_config_backend {
+	unsigned int version;
+	struct git_config *cfg;
+
+	/* Open means open the file/database and parse if necessary */
+	int (*open)(struct git_config_backend *, unsigned int level);
+	int (*get)(const struct git_config_backend *, const char *key, const git_config_entry **entry);
+	int (*get_multivar)(struct git_config_backend *, const char *key, const char *regexp, git_config_foreach_cb callback, void *payload);
+	int (*set)(struct git_config_backend *, const char *key, const char *value);
+	int (*set_multivar)(git_config_backend *cfg, const char *name, const char *regexp, const char *value);
+	int (*del)(struct git_config_backend *, const char *key);
+	int (*foreach)(struct git_config_backend *, const char *, git_config_foreach_cb callback, void *payload);
+	int (*refresh)(struct git_config_backend *);
+	void (*free)(struct git_config_backend *);
+};
+#define GIT_CONFIG_BACKEND_VERSION 1
+#define GIT_CONFIG_BACKEND_INIT {GIT_CONFIG_BACKEND_VERSION}
+
+/**
+ * Add a generic config file instance to an existing config
+ *
+ * Note that the configuration object will free the file
+ * automatically.
+ *
+ * Further queries on this config object will access each
+ * of the config file instances in order (instances with
+ * a higher priority level will be accessed first).
+ *
+ * @param cfg the configuration to add the file to
+ * @param file the configuration file (backend) to add
+ * @param level the priority level of the backend
+ * @param force if a config file already exists for the given
+ *  priority level, replace it
+ * @return 0 on success, GIT_EEXISTS when adding more than one file
+ *  for a given priority level (and force_replace set to 0), or error code
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_config_add_backend(
+	git_config *cfg,
+	git_config_backend *file,
+	unsigned int level,
+	int force);
+
+/** @} */
+GIT_END_DECL
+#endif