libgit2/src/git/repository.h
Vicent Marti 3315782cb4 Redesigned the walking/object lookup interface
The old 'git_revpool' object has been removed and
split into two distinct objects with separate
functionality, in order to have separate methods for
object management and object walking.

*	A new object 'git_repository' does the high-level
	management of a repository's objects (commits, trees,
	tags, etc) on top of a 'git_odb'.

	Eventually, it will also manage other repository
	attributes (e.g. tag resolution, references, etc).

	See: src/git/repository.h

*	A new external method
		'git_repository_lookup(repo, oid, type)'
	has been added to the 'git_repository' API.

	All object lookups (git_XXX_lookup()) are now
	wrappers to this method, and duplicated code
	has been removed. The method does automatic type
	checking and returns a generic 'git_revpool_object'
	that can be cast to any specific object.

	See: src/git/repository.h

*	The external methods for object parsing of repository
	objects (git_XXX_parse()) have been removed.

	Loading objects from the repository is now managed
	through the 'lookup' functions. These objects are
	loaded with minimal information, and the relevant
	parsing is done automatically when the user requests
	any of the parsed attributes through accessor methods.

	An attribute has been added to 'git_repository' in
	order to force the parsing of all the repository objects
	immediately after lookup.

	See: src/git/commit.h
	See: src/git/tag.h
	See: src/git/tree.h

*	The previous walking functionality of the revpool
	is now found in 'git_revwalk', which does the actual
	revision walking on a repository; the attributes
	when walking through commits in a database have been
	decoupled from the actual commit objects.
	This increases performance when accessing commits
	during the walk and allows to have several
	'git_revwalk' instances working at the same time on
	top of the same repository, without having to load
	commits in memory several times.

	See: src/git/revwalk.h

*	The old 'git_revpool_table' has been renamed to
	'git_hashtable' and now works as a generic hashtable
	with support for any kind of object and custom hash
	functions.

	See: src/hashtable.h

*	All the relevant unit tests have been updated, renamed
	and grouped accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
2010-08-12 18:48:55 +02:00

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#ifndef INCLUDE_git_repository_h__
#define INCLUDE_git_repository_h__
#include "common.h"
#include "odb.h"
#include "commit.h"
/**
* @file git/repository.h
* @brief Git revision object management routines
* @defgroup git_repository Git revision object management routines
* @ingroup Git
* @{
*/
GIT_BEGIN_DECL
/**
* Allocate a new repository object.
*
* TODO: specify the repository's path instead
* of its object database
*
* @param odb an existing object database to back the repo
* @return the new repository handle; NULL on error
*/
GIT_EXTERN(git_repository *) git_repository_alloc(git_odb *odb);
/**
* Lookup a reference to one of the objects in the repostory.
*
* The generated reference is owned by the repository and
* should not be freed by the user.
* The generated reference should be cast back to the
* expected type; e.g.
*
* git_commit *c = (git_commit *)
* git_repository_lookup(repo, id, GIT_OBJ_COMMIT);
*
* The 'type' parameter must match the type of the object
* in the odb; the method will fail otherwise.
* The special value 'GIT_OBJ_ANY' may be passed to let
* the method guess the object's type.
*
* @param repo the repository to look up the object
* @param id the unique identifier for the object
* @param type the type of the object
* @return a reference to the object
*/
GIT_EXTERN(git_repository_object *) git_repository_lookup(git_repository *repo, const git_oid *id, git_otype type);
/**
* Free a previously allocated repository
* @param repo repository handle to close. If NULL nothing occurs.
*/
GIT_EXTERN(void) git_repository_free(git_repository *repo);
/** @} */
GIT_END_DECL
#endif