Add support for in-memory objects

All repository objects can now be created from scratch in memory using
either the git_object_new() method, or the corresponding git_XXX_new()
for each object.

So far, only git_commits can be written back to disk once created in
memory.

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

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/git/tree.h b/src/git/tree.h
index 646c085bb..32fd6527a 100644
--- a/src/git/tree.h
+++ b/src/git/tree.h
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ typedef struct git_tree git_tree;
  */
 GIT_EXTERN(git_tree *) git_tree_lookup(git_repository *repo, const git_oid *id);
 
+/*
+ * Create a new in-memory git_tree.
+ *
+ * The tree object must be manually filled using
+ * setter methods before it can be written to its
+ * repository.
+ *
+ * @param repo The repository where the object will reside
+ * @return the object if creation was posible; NULL otherwise
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(git_tree *) git_tree_new(git_repository *repo);
+
 /**
  * Get the id of a tree.
  * @param tree a previously loaded tree.