branch.hon commit Update draft release notes to 1.7.7 (826603d)
   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 */
  15void create_branch(const char *head, const char *name, const char *start_name,
  16                   int force, int reflog, enum branch_track track);
  17
  18/*
  19 * Validates that the requested branch may be created, returning the
  20 * interpreted ref in ref, force indicates whether (non-head) branches
  21 * may be overwritten. A non-zero return value indicates that the force
  22 * parameter was non-zero and the branch already exists.
  23 */
  24int validate_new_branchname(const char *name, struct strbuf *ref, int force);
  25
  26/*
  27 * Remove information about the state of working on the current
  28 * branch. (E.g., MERGE_HEAD)
  29 */
  30void remove_branch_state(void);
  31
  32/*
  33 * Configure local branch "local" as downstream to branch "remote"
  34 * from remote "origin".  Used by git branch --set-upstream.
  35 */
  36#define BRANCH_CONFIG_VERBOSE 01
  37extern void install_branch_config(int flag, const char *local, const char *origin, const char *remote);
  38
  39#endif