Method

GgitRepositorycreate_reference

Declaration [src] 

GgitRef*
ggit_repository_create_reference (
  GgitRepository* repository,
  const gchar* name,
  GgitOId* oid,
  const gchar* log_message,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Creates a new object id reference.

The reference will be created in the repository and written to the disk. The returned value must be freed with g_object_unref().

Parameters

name

Type: const gchar*

The name for the new GgitRef.

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

Type: GgitOId

The GgitOId pointed to by the reference.

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 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 reference.

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