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 553 <div id="header">
 554 <h1>GIT API Documents</h1>
 555 </div>
 556 <div id="content">
 557 <div id="preamble">
 558 <div class="sectionbody">
 559 <div class="paragraph"><p>GIT has grown a set of internal API over time.  This collection
 560 documents them.</p></div>
 561 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 562 <li>
 563 <p>
 564 <a href="api-allocation-growing.html">allocation growing API</a>
 565 </p>
 566 </li>
 567 <li>
 568 <p>
 569 <a href="api-builtin.html">builtin API</a>
 570 </p>
 571 </li>
 572 <li>
 573 <p>
 574 <a href="api-decorate.html">decorate API</a>
 575 </p>
 576 </li>
 577 <li>
 578 <p>
 579 <a href="api-diff.html">diff API</a>
 580 </p>
 581 </li>
 582 <li>
 583 <p>
 584 <a href="api-directory-listing.html">directory listing API</a>
 585 </p>
 586 </li>
 587 <li>
 588 <p>
 589 <a href="api-gitattributes.html">gitattributes API</a>
 590 </p>
 591 </li>
 592 <li>
 593 <p>
 594 <a href="api-grep.html">grep API</a>
 595 </p>
 596 </li>
 597 <li>
 598 <p>
 599 <a href="api-hash.html">hash API</a>
 600 </p>
 601 </li>
 602 <li>
 603 <p>
 604 <a href="api-history-graph.html">history graph API</a>
 605 </p>
 606 </li>
 607 <li>
 608 <p>
 609 <a href="api-in-core-index.html">in-core index API</a>
 610 </p>
 611 </li>
 612 <li>
 613 <p>
 614 <a href="api-lockfile.html">lockfile API</a>
 615 </p>
 616 </li>
 617 <li>
 618 <p>
 619 <a href="api-merge.html">merge API</a>
 620 </p>
 621 </li>
 622 <li>
 623 <p>
 624 <a href="api-object-access.html">object access API</a>
 625 </p>
 626 </li>
 627 <li>
 628 <p>
 629 <a href="api-parse-options.html">parse-options API</a>
 630 </p>
 631 </li>
 632 <li>
 633 <p>
 634 <a href="api-quote.html">quote API</a>
 635 </p>
 636 </li>
 637 <li>
 638 <p>
 639 <a href="api-ref-iteration.html">ref iteration API</a>
 640 </p>
 641 </li>
 642 <li>
 643 <p>
 644 <a href="api-remote.html">Remotes configuration API</a>
 645 </p>
 646 </li>
 647 <li>
 648 <p>
 649 <a href="api-revision-walking.html">revision walking API</a>
 650 </p>
 651 </li>
 652 <li>
 653 <p>
 654 <a href="api-run-command.html">run-command API</a>
 655 </p>
 656 </li>
 657 <li>
 658 <p>
 659 <a href="api-setup.html">setup API</a>
 660 </p>
 661 </li>
 662 <li>
 663 <p>
 664 <a href="api-sigchain.html">sigchain API</a>
 665 </p>
 666 </li>
 667 <li>
 668 <p>
 669 <a href="api-strbuf.html">strbuf API</a>
 670 </p>
 671 </li>
 672 <li>
 673 <p>
 674 <a href="api-string-list.html">string-list API</a>
 675 </p>
 676 </li>
 677 <li>
 678 <p>
 679 <a href="api-tree-walking.html">tree walking API</a>
 680 </p>
 681 </li>
 682 <li>
 683 <p>
 684 <a href="api-xdiff-interface.html">xdiff interface API</a>
 685 </p>
 686 </li>
 687 </ul></div>
 688 <div class="paragraph"><p>2007-11-24</p></div>
 689 </div>
 690 </div>
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