branch.h

   1 #ifndef BRANCH_H
   2 #define BRANCH_H
   3
   4 /* Functions for acting on the information about branches. */
   5
   6 /*
   7  * Creates a new branch, where head is the branch currently checked
   8  * out, name is the new branch name, start_name is the name of the
   9  * existing branch that the new branch should start from, force
  10  * enables overwriting an existing (non-head) branch, reflog creates a
  11  * reflog for the branch, and track causes the new branch to be
  12  * configured to merge the remote branch that start_name is a tracking
  13  * branch for (if any).
  14  */
  15 void create_branch(const char *head, const char *name, const char *start_name,
  16                    int force, int reflog,
  17                    int clobber_head, enum branch_track track);
  18
  19 /*
  20  * Validates that the requested branch may be created, returning the
  21  * interpreted ref in ref, force indicates whether (non-head) branches
  22  * may be overwritten. A non-zero return value indicates that the force
  23  * parameter was non-zero and the branch already exists.
  24  *
  25  * Contrary to all of the above, when attr_only is 1, the caller is
  26  * not interested in verifying if it is Ok to update the named
  27  * branch to point at a potentially different commit. It is merely
  28  * asking if it is OK to change some attribute for the named branch
  29  * (e.g. tracking upstream).
  30  *
  31  * NEEDSWORK: This needs to be split into two separate functions in the
  32  * longer run for sanity.
  33  *
  34  */
  35 int validate_new_branchname(const char *name, struct strbuf *ref, int force, int attr_only);
  36
  37 /*
  38  * Remove information about the state of working on the current
  39  * branch. (E.g., MERGE_HEAD)
  40  */
  41 void remove_branch_state(void);
  42
  43 /*
  44  * Configure local branch "local" as downstream to branch "remote"
  45  * from remote "origin".  Used by git branch --set-upstream.
  46  */
  47 #define BRANCH_CONFIG_VERBOSE 01
  48 extern void install_branch_config(int flag, const char *local, const char *origin, const char *remote);
  49
  50 /*
  51  * Read branch description
  52  */
  53 extern int read_branch_desc(struct strbuf *, const char *branch_name);
  54
  55 #endif