ab/object-file-api-updates (was: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2022, #08; Mon, 28))

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 01 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * ab/object-file-api-updates (2022-02-25) 12 commits
>  - object-file API: pass an enum to read_object_with_reference()
>  - object-file.c: add a literal version of write_object_file_prepare()
>  - object-file API: have hash_object_file() take "enum object_type"
>  - object API: rename hash_object_file_literally() to write_*()
>  - object-file API: split up and simplify check_object_signature()
>  - object API users + docs: check <0, not !0 with check_object_signature()
>  - object API docs: move check_object_signature() docs to cache.h
>  - object API: correct "buf" v.s. "map" mismatch in *.c and *.h
>  - object-file API: have write_object_file() take "enum object_type"
>  - object-file API: add a format_object_header() function
>  - object-file API: return "void", not "int" from hash_object_file()
>  - object-file.c: split up declaration of unrelated variables
>
>  Object-file API shuffling.
>
>  Needs review.
>  source: <cover-v3-00.12-00000000000-20220204T234435Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Jiang Xin (whose git-unpack-objects series at [1] depends on this) has
looked this over & acked it at [2].

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-v10-0.6-00000000000-20220204T135538Z-avarab@gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CANYiYbFZN=mvcxRT4Cf4Gzao89KR2UjMJXnJM63S2zAtbD32Jg@mail.gmail.com/