midx: Add a way to write multi-pack-index files

This change adds the git_midx_writer_* functions to allow to
write and create `multi-pack-index` files from `.idx`/`.pack` files.

Part of: #5399

2 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/git2/sys/midx.h b/include/git2/sys/midx.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e3d749829
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/git2/sys/midx.h
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * 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_sys_git_midx_h__
+#define INCLUDE_sys_git_midx_h__
+
+#include "git2/common.h"
+#include "git2/types.h"
+
+/**
+ * @file git2/midx.h
+ * @brief Git multi-pack-index routines
+ * @defgroup git_midx Git multi-pack-index routines
+ * @ingroup Git
+ * @{
+ */
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * Create a new writer for `multi-pack-index` files.
+ *
+ * @param out location to store the writer pointer.
+ * @param pack_dir the directory where the `.pack` and `.idx` files are. The
+ * `multi-pack-index` file will be written in this directory, too.
+ * @return 0 or an error code
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_midx_writer_new(
+		git_midx_writer **out,
+		const char *pack_dir);
+
+/**
+ * Free the multi-pack-index writer and its resources.
+ *
+ * @param w the writer to free. If NULL no action is taken.
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(void) git_midx_writer_free(git_midx_writer *w);
+
+/**
+ * Add an `.idx` file to the writer.
+ *
+ * @param w the writer
+ * @param idx_path the path of an `.idx` file.
+ * @return 0 or an error code
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_midx_writer_add(
+		git_midx_writer *w,
+		const char *idx_path);
+
+/**
+ * Write a `multi-pack-index` file to a file.
+ *
+ * @param w the writer
+ * @return 0 or an error code
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_midx_writer_commit(
+		git_midx_writer *w);
+
+/**
+ * Dump the contents of the `multi-pack-index` to an in-memory buffer.
+ *
+ * @param midx Buffer where to store the contents of the `multi-pack-index`.
+ * @param w the writer
+ * @return 0 or an error code
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_midx_writer_dump(
+		git_buf *midx,
+		git_midx_writer *w);
+
+/** @} */
+GIT_END_DECL
+#endif
diff --git a/include/git2/types.h b/include/git2/types.h
index 562eb8e5f..4de0672f9 100644
--- a/include/git2/types.h
+++ b/include/git2/types.h
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ typedef struct git_odb_stream git_odb_stream;
 /** A stream to write a packfile to the ODB */
 typedef struct git_odb_writepack git_odb_writepack;
 
+/** a writer for multi-pack-index files. */
+typedef struct git_midx_writer git_midx_writer;
+
 /** An open refs database handle. */
 typedef struct git_refdb git_refdb;