libgit2/src/git/repository.h
Vicent Marti 9c9f4fc11c Add support for manually freeing repo objects
A new method 'git_repository_object_free' allows to manually force the
freeing of a repository object, even though they are still automatically
managed by the repository and don't need to be freed by the user.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
2010-08-12 23:40:54 +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 reference to one of the objects in the repostory.
*
* Repository objects are managed automatically by the library,
* but this method can be used to force freeing one of the
* objects.
*
* Careful: freeing objects in the middle of a repository
* traversal will most likely cause errors.
*
* @param object the object to free
*/
GIT_EXTERN(void) git_repository_object_free(git_repository_object *object);
/**
* 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