2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/git2/config.h b/include/git2/config.h
index 827d43544..f6fc74ee1 100644
--- a/include/git2/config.h
+++ b/include/git2/config.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ typedef struct {
 } git_config_entry;
 
 typedef int  (*git_config_foreach_cb)(const git_config_entry *, void *);
+typedef struct git_config_backend_iter* git_config_backend_iter;
 
 typedef enum {
 	GIT_CVAR_FALSE = 0,
@@ -535,6 +536,25 @@ GIT_EXTERN(int) git_config_parse_int32(int32_t *out, const char *value);
 GIT_EXTERN(int) git_config_parse_int64(int64_t *out, const char *value);
 
 
+/**
+ * Perform an operation on each config variable in given config backend
+ * matching a regular expression.
+ *
+ * This behaviors like `git_config_foreach_match` except instead of all config
+ * entries it just enumerates through the given backend entry.
+ *
+ * @param backend where to get the variables from
+ * @param regexp regular expression to match against config names (can be NULL)
+ * @param callback the function to call on each variable
+ * @param payload the data to pass to the callback
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_config_backend_foreach_match(
+	git_config_backend *backend,
+	const char *regexp,
+	int (*fn)(const git_config_entry *, void *),
+	void *data);
+
+
 /** @} */
 GIT_END_DECL
 #endif
diff --git a/include/git2/sys/config.h b/include/git2/sys/config.h
index 11e59cf03..61dcce544 100644
--- a/include/git2/sys/config.h
+++ b/include/git2/sys/config.h
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ struct git_config_backend {
 	int (*set)(struct git_config_backend *, const char *key, const char *value);
 	int (*set_multivar)(git_config_backend *cfg, const char *name, const char *regexp, const char *value);
 	int (*del)(struct git_config_backend *, const char *key);
-	int (*foreach)(struct git_config_backend *, const char *, git_config_foreach_cb callback, void *payload);
+	int (*iterator_new)(git_config_backend_iter **, struct git_config_backend *);
+	void (*iterator_free)(git_config_backend_iter *);
+	int (*next)(git_config_backend_iter *, git_config_entry *, struct git_config_backend *);
 	int (*refresh)(struct git_config_backend *);
 	void (*free)(struct git_config_backend *);
 };