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1 #ifndef REPOSITORY_H
2 #define REPOSITORY_H
3
4 struct config_set;
5 struct index_state;
6 struct submodule_cache;
7 struct git_hash_algo;
8
9 struct repository {
10 /* Environment */
11 /*
12 * Path to the git directory.
13 * Cannot be NULL after initialization.
14 */
15 char *gitdir;
16
17 /*
18 * Path to the common git directory.
19 * Cannot be NULL after initialization.
20 */
21 char *commondir;
22
23 /*
24 * Path to the repository's object store.
25 * Cannot be NULL after initialization.
26 */
27 char *objectdir;
28
29 /* Path to extra alternate object database if not NULL */
30 char *alternate_db;
31
32 /*
33 * Path to the repository's graft file.
34 * Cannot be NULL after initialization.
35 */
36 char *graft_file;
37
38 /*
39 * Path to the current worktree's index file.
40 * Cannot be NULL after initialization.
41 */
42 char *index_file;
43
44 /*
45 * Path to the working directory.
46 * A NULL value indicates that there is no working directory.
47 */
48 char *worktree;
49
50 /*
51 * Path from the root of the top-level superproject down to this
52 * repository. This is only non-NULL if the repository is initialized
53 * as a submodule of another repository.
54 */
55 char *submodule_prefix;
56
57 /* Subsystems */
58 /*
59 * Repository's config which contains key-value pairs from the usual
60 * set of config files (i.e. repo specific .git/config, user wide
61 * ~/.gitconfig, XDG config file and the global /etc/gitconfig)
62 */
63 struct config_set *config;
64
65 /* Repository's submodule config as defined by '.gitmodules' */
66 struct submodule_cache *submodule_cache;
67
68 /*
69 * Repository's in-memory index.
70 * 'repo_read_index()' can be used to populate 'index'.
71 */
72 struct index_state *index;
73
74 /* Repository's current hash algorithm, as serialized on disk. */
75 const struct git_hash_algo *hash_algo;
76
77 /* Configurations */
78
79 /* Indicate if a repository has a different 'commondir' from 'gitdir' */
80 unsigned different_commondir:1;
81 };
82
83 extern struct repository *the_repository;
84
85 /*
86 * Define a custom repository layout. Any field can be NULL, which
87 * will default back to the path according to the default layout.
88 */
89 struct set_gitdir_args {
90 const char *commondir;
91 const char *object_dir;
92 const char *graft_file;
93 const char *index_file;
94 const char *alternate_db;
95 };
96
97 extern void repo_set_gitdir(struct repository *repo,
98 const char *root,
99 const struct set_gitdir_args *extra_args);
100 extern void repo_set_worktree(struct repository *repo, const char *path);
101 extern void repo_set_hash_algo(struct repository *repo, int algo);
102 extern void initialize_the_repository(void);
103 extern int repo_submodule_init(struct repository *submodule,
104 struct repository *superproject,
105 const char *path);
106 extern void repo_clear(struct repository *repo);
107
108 /*
109 * Populates the repository's index from its index_file, an index struct will
110 * be allocated if needed.
111 *
112 * Return the number of index entries in the populated index or a value less
113 * than zero if an error occured. If the repository's index has already been
114 * populated then the number of entries will simply be returned.
115 */
116 extern int repo_read_index(struct repository *repo);
117
118 #endif /* REPOSITORY_H */