str: introduce `git_str` for internal, `git_buf` is externalethomson/gitstr

libgit2 has two distinct requirements that were previously solved by
`git_buf`.  We require:

1. A general purpose string class that provides a number of utility APIs
   for manipulating data (eg, concatenating, truncating, etc).
2. A structure that we can use to return strings to callers that they
   can take ownership of.

By using a single class (`git_buf`) for both of these purposes, we have
confused the API to the point that refactorings are difficult and
reasoning about correctness is also difficult.

Move the utility class `git_buf` to be called `git_str`: this represents
its general purpose, as an internal string buffer class.  The name also
is an homage to Junio Hamano ("gitstr").

The public API remains `git_buf`, and has a much smaller footprint.  It
is generally only used as an "out" param with strict requirements that
follow the documentation.  (Exceptions exist for some legacy APIs to
avoid breaking callers unnecessarily.)

Utility functions exist to convert a user-specified `git_buf` to a
`git_str` so that we can call internal functions, then converting it
back again.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/blob.h b/src/blob.h
index e5770991e..9a5dda225 100644
--- a/src/blob.h
+++ b/src/blob.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct git_blob {
 void git_blob__free(void *blob);
 int git_blob__parse(void *blob, git_odb_object *obj);
 int git_blob__parse_raw(void *blob, const char *data, size_t size);
-int git_blob__getbuf(git_buf *buffer, git_blob *blob);
+int git_blob__getbuf(git_str *buffer, git_blob *blob);
 
 extern int git_blob__create_from_paths(
 	git_oid *out_oid,