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-rw-r--r--include/git2/global.h14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/git2/global.h b/include/git2/global.h
index 4f90c4c20..ce5bdf444 100644
--- a/include/git2/global.h
+++ b/include/git2/global.h
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ GIT_BEGIN_DECL
* This function must the called before any other libgit2 function in
* order to set up global state and threading.
*
- * This function may be called multiple times.
+ * This function may be called multiple times - it will return the number
+ * of times the initialization has been called (including this one) that have
+ * not subsequently been shutdown.
*
- * @return 0 or an error code
+ * @return the number of initializations of the library, or an error code.
*/
GIT_EXTERN(int) git_libgit2_init(void);
@@ -27,10 +29,14 @@ GIT_EXTERN(int) git_libgit2_init(void);
* Shutdown the global state
*
* Clean up the global state and threading context after calling it as
- * many times as `git_libgit2_init()` was called.
+ * many times as `git_libgit2_init()` was called - it will return the
+ * number of remainining initializations that have not been shutdown
+ * (after this one).
*
+ * @return the number of remaining initializations of the library, or an
+ * error code.
*/
-GIT_EXTERN(void) git_libgit2_shutdown(void);
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_libgit2_shutdown(void);
/** @} */
GIT_END_DECL