merge: expose multiple merge basescmn/oidarray

We always calculate multiple merge bases, but up to now we had only
exposed the "best" merge base.

Introduce git_oidarray which analogously to git_strarray lets us return
multiple ids.

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/git2/oidarray.h b/include/git2/oidarray.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDE_git_oidarray_h__
+#define INCLUDE_git_oidarray_h__
+
+#include "common.h"
+#include "oid.h"
+
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/** Array of object ids */
+typedef struct git_oidarray {
+	git_oid *ids;
+	size_t count;
+} git_oidarray;
+
+/**
+ * Free the OID array
+ *
+ * This method must (and must only) be called on `git_oidarray`
+ * objects where the array is allocated by the library. Not doing so,
+ * will result in a memory leak.
+ *
+ * This does not free the `git_oidarray` itself, since the library will
+ * never allocate that object directly itself (it is more commonly embedded
+ * inside another struct or created on the stack).
+ *
+ * @param array git_oidarray from which to free oid data
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(void) git_oidarray_free(git_oidarray *array);
+
+/** @} */
+GIT_END_DECL
+
+#endif
+