It's no longer retarded. All object interdependencies are stored as OIDs
instead of actual objects. This should be hundreds of times faster,
specially on big repositories. Heck, who knows, maye it doesn't even
segfault -- wouldn't that be awesome?
What has changed on the API?
`git_commit_parent`, `git_commit_tree`, `git_tag_target` now return
their values through a pointer-to-pointer, and have an error code.
`git_commit_set_tree` and `git_tag_set_target` now return an error
code and may fail.
`git_repository_free__no_gc` has been deprecated because it's
stupid. Since there are no longer any interdependencies between
objects, we don't need internal reference counting, and GC
never fails or double-free's pointers.
`git_object_close` now does a very sane thing: marks an object
as unused. Closed objects will be eventually free'd from the
object cache based on LRU. Please use `git_object_close` from
the garbage collector `destroy` method on your bindings. It's
100% safe.
`git_repository_gc` is a new method that forces a garbage collector
pass through the repo, to free as many LRU objects as possible.
This is useful if we are running out of memory.
Disable garbage collection of cross-references to prevent
double-freeing. Internal reference management is now done
with a separate method.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
- Added several missing reference increases
- Add new destructor to the repository that does not GC the objects
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
All `git_object` instances looked up from the repository are reference
counted. User is expected to use the new `git_object_close` when an
object is no longer needed to force freeing it.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
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>
