Like in-memory alternates, pretend_object_file contains a trap for the
unwary: careless callers can use it to create references to an object
that does not exist in the on-disk object store.
Add a comment documenting how to use the function without risking such
problems.
The only current caller is blame, which uses pretend_object_file to
create an in-memory commit representing the working tree state.
Noticed during a discussion of how to safely use this function in
operations like "git merge" which, unlike blame, are not read-only.
Inspired-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
const char *type, struct object_id *oid,
unsigned flags);
+/*
+ * Add an object file to the in-memory object store, without writing it
+ * to disk.
+ *
+ * Callers are responsible for calling write_object_file to record the
+ * object in persistent storage before writing any other new objects
+ * that reference it.
+ */
int pretend_object_file(void *, unsigned long, enum object_type,
struct object_id *oid);