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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-12-18 00:27:59 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-12-18 00:28:16 -0800
commit03f94ae9f909952ed5a78917ab319a312889354b (patch)
tree0fd041e8b390bd0d2a960ae629d8e965d363de92 /blob.h
parent2c47789d817aaf745a5ce5d5f79619c634cc8566 (diff)
parent81b50f3ce40bfdd66e5d967bf82be001039a9a98 (diff)
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Update jk/maint-strbuf-missing-init to builtin/ renamejk/maint-strbuf-missing-init
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diff --git a/blob.h b/blob.h
index ea5d9e9f8b..59b394eea3 100644
--- a/blob.h
+++ b/blob.h
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ struct blob *lookup_blob(const unsigned char *sha1);
int parse_blob_buffer(struct blob *item, void *buffer, unsigned long size);
-int parse_blob(struct blob *item);
+/**
+ * Blobs do not contain references to other objects and do not have
+ * structured data that needs parsing. However, code may use the
+ * "parsed" bit in the struct object for a blob to determine whether
+ * its content has been found to actually be available, so
+ * parse_blob_buffer() is used (by object.c) to flag that the object
+ * has been read successfully from the database.
+ **/
#endif /* BLOB_H */