expose a helper function peel_to_type().

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index e1000bccb2470ad66038aabbf57b0af96e506f11..4bfb1ba4999be5e8cf92dcf5ec585528088b8c56 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -499,6 +499,9 @@ extern void *read_object_with_reference(const unsigned char *sha1,
                                        unsigned long *size,
                                        unsigned char *sha1_ret);
 
+extern struct object *peel_to_type(const char *name, int namelen,
+                                  struct object *o, enum object_type);
+
 enum date_mode {
        DATE_NORMAL = 0,
        DATE_RELATIVE,