Method

GgitRepositorycreate_commit_buffer

Declaration [src] 

gchar*
ggit_repository_create_commit_buffer (
  GgitRepository* repository,
  GgitSignature* author,
  GgitSignature* committer,
  const gchar* message_encoding,
  const gchar* message,
  GgitTree* tree,
  GgitCommit** parents,
  gint parent_count,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Create a commit as with git_commit_create() but instead of writing it to the objectdb, write the contents of the object into a buffer.

Parameters

author

Type: GgitSignature

Author signature.

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

Type: GgitSignature

Committer signature (and time of commit).

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

Type: const gchar*

Message encoding.

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

Type: const gchar*

Commit message.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
tree

Type: GgitTree

The tree of objects to commit.

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

Type: An array of GgitCommit*

Parent commits.

The length of the array is specified in the parent_count argument.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
parent_count

Type: gint

Number of parent commits in parents.

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: gchar*

The commit object content or NULL in case of an error.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.