From 7cc3c9202722c53bf46e5a8f8d0d7180423a7632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Wiegley <johnw@fpcomplete.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:48:36 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Added git_repository_new function

---
 include/git2/repository.h | 8 ++++++++
 src/repository.c          | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/git2/repository.h b/include/git2/repository.h
index ed837b359..f55ab798f 100644
--- a/include/git2/repository.h
+++ b/include/git2/repository.h
@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ GIT_EXTERN(int) git_repository_open_ext(
  */
 GIT_EXTERN(int) git_repository_open_bare(git_repository **out, const char *bare_path);
 
+/**
+ * Create a new repository with neither backends nor config object
+ *
+ * Note that this is only useful if you wish to associate the repository
+ * with a non-filesystem-backed object database and config store.
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_repository_new(git_repository **out);
+
 /**
  * Free a previously allocated repository
  *
diff --git a/src/repository.c b/src/repository.c
index 64ab2f4db..72b5a079a 100644
--- a/src/repository.c
+++ b/src/repository.c
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ static git_repository *repository_alloc(void)
 	return repo;
 }
 
+int git_repository_new(git_repository **out)
+{
+	*out = repository_alloc();
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int load_config_data(git_repository *repo)
 {
 	int is_bare;