Method

GgitRefset_target

Declaration [src] 

GgitRef*
ggit_ref_set_target (
  GgitRef* ref,
  GgitOId* oid,
  const gchar* log_message,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Create a new reference with the same name as the given reference but a different OID target. The reference must be a direct reference, otherwise this will fail.

The new reference will be written to disk, overwriting the given reference.

Parameters

oid

Type: GgitOId

A GgitOId.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
log_message

Type: const gchar*

The one line long message to be appended to the reflog.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GgitRef

The newly created GgitRef or NULL.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.