Merge branch 'jn/gitweb-unspecified-action' into maint-1.7.8

[git.git] / branch.h

diff --git a/branch.h b/branch.h
index 4026e3832b265c4cef6e5bc151976771867b3da9..e125ff4ca89a87fadb03b3d8272b44ab33640c72 100644 (file)
--- a/branch.h
+++ b/branch.h
@@ -13,7 +13,26 @@
  * branch for (if any).
  */
 void create_branch(const char *head, const char *name, const char *start_name,
-                  int force, int reflog, enum branch_track track);
+                  int force, int reflog,
+                  int clobber_head, enum branch_track track);
+
+/*
+ * Validates that the requested branch may be created, returning the
+ * interpreted ref in ref, force indicates whether (non-head) branches
+ * may be overwritten. A non-zero return value indicates that the force
+ * parameter was non-zero and the branch already exists.
+ *
+ * Contrary to all of the above, when attr_only is 1, the caller is
+ * not interested in verifying if it is Ok to update the named
+ * branch to point at a potentially different commit. It is merely
+ * asking if it is OK to change some attribute for the named branch
+ * (e.g. tracking upstream).
+ *
+ * NEEDSWORK: This needs to be split into two separate functions in the
+ * longer run for sanity.
+ *
+ */
+int validate_new_branchname(const char *name, struct strbuf *ref, int force, int attr_only);
 
 /*
  * Remove information about the state of working on the current