};
int git_config_perm(const char *var, const char *value);
int adjust_shared_perm(const char *path);
-int safe_create_leading_directories(char *path);
-int safe_create_leading_directories_const(const char *path);
+
+/*
+ * Create the directory containing the named path, using care to be
+ * somewhat safe against races. Return one of the scld_error values
+ * to indicate success/failure.
+ *
+ * SCLD_VANISHED indicates that one of the ancestor directories of the
+ * path existed at one point during the function call and then
+ * suddenly vanished, probably because another process pruned the
+ * directory while we were working. To be robust against this kind of
+ * race, callers might want to try invoking the function again when it
+ * returns SCLD_VANISHED.
+ */
+enum scld_error {
+ SCLD_OK = 0,
+ SCLD_FAILED = -1,
+ SCLD_PERMS = -2,
+ SCLD_EXISTS = -3,
+ SCLD_VANISHED = -4
+};
+enum scld_error safe_create_leading_directories(char *path);
+enum scld_error safe_create_leading_directories_const(const char *path);
+
int mkdir_in_gitdir(const char *path);
extern void home_config_paths(char **global, char **xdg, char *file);
extern char *expand_user_path(const char *path);
extern int interpret_branch_name(const char *str, int len, struct strbuf *);
extern int get_sha1_mb(const char *str, unsigned char *sha1);
-extern int refname_match(const char *abbrev_name, const char *full_name, const char **rules);
-extern const char *ref_rev_parse_rules[];
-#define ref_fetch_rules ref_rev_parse_rules
+/*
+ * Return true iff abbrev_name is a possible abbreviation for
+ * full_name according to the rules defined by ref_rev_parse_rules in
+ * refs.c.
+ */
+extern int refname_match(const char *abbrev_name, const char *full_name);
extern int create_symref(const char *ref, const char *refs_heads_master, const char *logmsg);
extern int validate_headref(const char *ref);