Add support for manually freeing repo objects

A new method 'git_repository_object_free' allows to manually force the
freeing of a repository object, even though they are still automatically
managed by the repository and don't need to be freed by the user.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/git/repository.h b/src/git/repository.h
index 3b6981d50..001e4e9fb 100644
--- a/src/git/repository.h
+++ b/src/git/repository.h
@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@ GIT_EXTERN(git_repository *) git_repository_alloc(git_odb *odb);
  */
 GIT_EXTERN(git_repository_object *) git_repository_lookup(git_repository *repo, const git_oid *id, git_otype type);
 
+
+/**
+ * Free a reference to one of the objects in the repostory.
+ *
+ * Repository objects are managed automatically by the library,
+ * but this method can be used to force freeing one of the
+ * objects.
+ *
+ * Careful: freeing objects in the middle of a repository
+ * traversal will most likely cause errors.
+ *
+ * @param object the object to free
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(void) git_repository_object_free(git_repository_object *object);
+
 /**
  * Free a previously allocated repository
  * @param repo repository handle to close. If NULL nothing occurs.