Method
GgitRepositorylookup_reference_dwim
Declaration [src]
GgitRef*
ggit_repository_lookup_reference_dwim (
GgitRepository* repository,
const gchar* short_name,
GError** error
)
Description [src]
Lookups a reference by its short name in repository applying the git precendence
rules to the given shorthand to determine which reference the user is referring to.
The returned GgitRef must be freed with g_object_unref().
Parameters
short_name-
Type:
const gchar*The short name for the reference (e.g. master, v0.1.0, …).
The data is owned by the caller of the function. 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 aNULLGError*.The argument will left initialized to NULLby 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 searched reference.
| The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it. |
The return value can be NULL. |