Merge pull request #891 from arrbee/internal-ignore-api

API for managing in-memory ignore rules

2 files changed, 75 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/git2.h b/include/git2.h
index 40167484b..805044abb 100644
--- a/include/git2.h
+++ b/include/git2.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include "git2/checkout.h"
 
 #include "git2/attr.h"
+#include "git2/ignore.h"
 #include "git2/branch.h"
 #include "git2/refspec.h"
 #include "git2/net.h"
diff --git a/include/git2/ignore.h b/include/git2/ignore.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7e04e881
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/git2/ignore.h
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 the libgit2 contributors
+ *
+ * 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_ignore_h__
+#define INCLUDE_git_ignore_h__
+
+#include "common.h"
+#include "types.h"
+
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * Add ignore rules for a repository.
+ *
+ * Excludesfile rules (i.e. .gitignore rules) are generally read from
+ * .gitignore files in the repository tree or from a shared system file
+ * only if a "core.excludesfile" config value is set.  The library also
+ * keeps a set of per-repository internal ignores that can be configured
+ * in-memory and will not persist.  This function allows you to add to
+ * that internal rules list.
+ *
+ * Example usage:
+ *
+ *     error = git_ignore_add(myrepo, "*.c\ndir/\nFile with space\n");
+ *
+ * This would add three rules to the ignores.
+ *
+ * @param repo The repository to add ignore rules to.
+ * @param rules Text of rules, a la the contents of a .gitignore file.
+ *              It is okay to have multiple rules in the text; if so,
+ *              each rule should be terminated with a newline.
+ * @return 0 on success
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_ignore_add_rule(
+	git_repository *repo,
+	const char *rules);
+
+/**
+ * Clear ignore rules that were explicitly added.
+ *
+ * Clears the internal ignore rules that have been set up.  This will not
+ * turn off the rules in .gitignore files that actually exist in the
+ * filesystem.
+ *
+ * @param repo The repository to remove ignore rules from.
+ * @return 0 on success
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_ignore_clear_internal_rules(
+	git_repository *repo);
+
+/**
+ * Test if the ignore rules apply to a given path.
+ *
+ * This function simply checks the ignore rules to see if they would apply
+ * to the given file.  This indicates if the file would be ignored regardless
+ * of whether the file is already in the index or commited to the repository.
+ *
+ * @param ignored boolean returning 0 if the file is not ignored, 1 if it is
+ * @param repo a repository object
+ * @param path the file to check ignores for, relative to the repo's workdir.
+ * @return 0 if ignore rules could be processed for the file (regardless
+ *         of whether it exists or not), or an error < 0 if they could not.
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_ignore_path_is_ignored(
+	int *ignored,
+	git_repository *repo,
+	const char *path);
+
+GIT_END_DECL
+
+#endif