/* * libgit2 "general" example - shows basic libgit2 concepts * * Written by the libgit2 contributors * * To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright * and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain * worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty. * * You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along * with this software. If not, see * . */ /** * [**libgit2**][lg] is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core * methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, * allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any * language which supports C bindings. * * This file is an example of using that API in a real, compilable C file. * As the API is updated, this file will be updated to demonstrate the new * functionality. * * If you're trying to write something in C using [libgit2][lg], you should * also check out the generated [API documentation][ap]. We try to link to * the relevant sections of the API docs in each section in this file. * * **libgit2** (for the most part) only implements the core plumbing * functions, not really the higher level porcelain stuff. For a primer on * Git Internals that you will need to know to work with Git at this level, * check out [Chapter 10][pg] of the Pro Git book. * * [lg]: http://libgit2.github.com * [ap]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2 * [pg]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Porcelain */ /** * ### Includes * * Including the `git2.h` header will include all the other libgit2 headers * that you need. It should be the only thing you need to include in order * to compile properly and get all the libgit2 API. */ #include #include #include static void oid_parsing(git_oid *out); static void object_database(git_repository *repo, git_oid *oid); static void commit_writing(git_repository *repo); static void commit_parsing(git_repository *repo); static void tag_parsing(git_repository *repo); static void tree_parsing(git_repository *repo); static void blob_parsing(git_repository *repo); static void revwalking(git_repository *repo); static void index_walking(git_repository *repo); static void reference_listing(git_repository *repo); static void config_files(const char *repo_path, git_repository *repo); /** * Almost all libgit2 functions return 0 on success or negative on error. * This is not production quality error checking, but should be sufficient * as an example. */ static void check_error(int error_code, const char *action) { const git_error *error = giterr_last(); if (!error_code) return; printf("Error %d %s - %s\n", error_code, action, (error && error->message) ? error->message : "???"); exit(1); } int main (int argc, char** argv) { int error; git_oid oid; char *repo_path; git_repository *repo; /** * Initialize the library, this will set up any global state which libgit2 needs * including threading and crypto */ git_libgit2_init(); /** * ### Opening the Repository * * There are a couple of methods for opening a repository, this being the * simplest. There are also [methods][me] for specifying the index file * and work tree locations, here we assume they are in the normal places. * * (Try running this program against tests/resources/testrepo.git.) * * [me]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/repository */ repo_path = (argc > 1) ? argv[1] : "/opt/libgit2-test/.git"; error = git_repository_open(&repo, repo_path); check_error(error, "opening repository"); oid_parsing(&oid); object_database(repo, &oid); commit_writing(repo); commit_parsing(repo); tag_parsing(repo); tree_parsing(repo); blob_parsing(repo); revwalking(repo); index_walking(repo); reference_listing(repo); config_files(repo_path, repo); /** * Finally, when you're done with the repository, you can free it as well. */ git_repository_free(repo); return 0; } /** * ### SHA-1 Value Conversions */ static void oid_parsing(git_oid *oid) { char out[GIT_OID_HEXSZ+1]; char hex[] = "4a202b346bb0fb0db7eff3cffeb3c70babbd2045"; printf("*Hex to Raw*\n"); /** * For our first example, we will convert a 40 character hex value to the * 20 byte raw SHA1 value. * * The `git_oid` is the structure that keeps the SHA value. We will use * this throughout the example for storing the value of the current SHA * key we're working with. */ git_oid_fromstr(oid, hex); // Once we've converted the string into the oid value, we can get the raw // value of the SHA by accessing `oid.id` // Next we will convert the 20 byte raw SHA1 value to a human readable 40 // char hex value. printf("\n*Raw to Hex*\n"); out[GIT_OID_HEXSZ] = '\0'; /** * If you have a oid, you can easily get the hex value of the SHA as well. */ git_oid_fmt(out, oid); /** * If you have a oid, you can easily get the hex value of the SHA as well. */ git_oid_fmt(out, oid); printf("SHA hex string: %s\n", out); } /** * ### Working with the Object Database * * **libgit2** provides [direct access][odb] to the object database. The * object database is where the actual objects are stored in Git. For * working with raw objects, we'll need to get this structure from the * repository. * * [odb]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/odb */ static void object_database(git_repository *repo, git_oid *oid) { char oid_hex[GIT_OID_HEXSZ+1] = { 0 }; const unsigned char *data; const char *str_type; int error; git_odb_object *obj; git_odb *odb; git_otype otype; git_repository_odb(&odb, repo); /** * #### Raw Object Reading */ printf("\n*Raw Object Read*\n"); /** * We can read raw objects directly from the object database if we have * the oid (SHA) of the object. This allows us to access objects without * knowing their type and inspect the raw bytes unparsed. */ error = git_odb_read(&obj, odb, oid); check_error(error, "finding object in repository"); /** * A raw object only has three properties - the type (commit, blob, tree * or tag), the size of the raw data and the raw, unparsed data itself. * For a commit or tag, that raw data is human readable plain ASCII * text. For a blob it is just file contents, so it could be text or * binary data. For a tree it is a special binary format, so it's unlikely * to be hugely helpful as a raw object. */ data = (const unsigned char *)git_odb_object_data(obj); otype = git_odb_object_type(obj); /** * We provide methods to convert from the object type which is an enum, to * a string representation of that value (and vice-versa). */ str_type = git_object_type2string(otype); printf("object length and type: %d, %s\nobject data: %s\n", (int)git_odb_object_size(obj), str_type, data); /** * For proper memory management, close the object when you are done with * it or it will leak memory. */ git_odb_object_free(obj); /** * #### Raw Object Writing */ printf("\n*Raw Object Write*\n"); /** * You can also write raw object data to Git. This is pretty cool because * it gives you direct access to the key/value properties of Git. Here * we'll write a new blob object that just contains a simple string. * Notice that we have to specify the object type as the `git_otype` enum. */ git_odb_write(oid, odb, "test data", sizeof("test data") - 1, GIT_OBJ_BLOB); /** * Now that we've written the object, we can check out what SHA1 was * generated when the object was written to our database. */ git_oid_fmt(oid_hex, oid); printf("Written Object: %s\n", oid_hex); /** * Free the object database after usage. */ git_odb_free(odb); } /** * #### Writing Commits * * libgit2 provides a couple of methods to create commit objects easily as * well. There are four different create signatures, we'll just show one * of them here. You can read about the other ones in the [commit API * docs][cd]. * * [cd]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/commit */ static void commit_writing(git_repository *repo) { git_oid tree_id, parent_id, commit_id; git_tree *tree; git_commit *parent; git_signature *author, *committer; char oid_hex[GIT_OID_HEXSZ+1] = { 0 }; printf("\n*Commit Writing*\n"); /** * Creating signatures for an authoring identity and time is simple. You * will need to do this to specify who created a commit and when. Default * values for the name and email should be found in the `user.name` and * `user.email` configuration options. See the `config` section of this * example file to see how to access config values. */ git_signature_new(&author, "Scott Chacon", "schacon@gmail.com", 123456789, 60); git_signature_new(&committer, "Scott A Chacon", "scott@github.com", 987654321, 90); /** * Commit objects need a tree to point to and optionally one or more * parents. Here we're creating oid objects to create the commit with, * but you can also use */ git_oid_fromstr(&tree_id, "f60079018b664e4e79329a7ef9559c8d9e0378d1"); git_tree_lookup(&tree, repo, &tree_id); git_oid_fromstr(&parent_id, "5b5b025afb0b4c913b4c338a42934a3863bf3644"); git_commit_lookup(&parent, repo, &parent_id); /** * Here we actually create the commit object with a single call with all * the values we need to create the commit. The SHA key is written to the * `commit_id` variable here. */ git_commit_create_v( &commit_id, /* out id */ repo, NULL, /* do not update the HEAD */ author, committer, NULL, /* use default message encoding */ "example commit", tree, 1, parent); /** * Now we can take a look at the commit SHA we've generated. */ git_oid_fmt(oid_hex, &commit_id); printf("New Commit: %s\n", oid_hex); /** * Free all objects used in the meanwhile. */ git_tree_free(tree); git_commit_free(parent); git_signature_free(author); git_signature_free(committer); } /** * ### Object Parsing * * libgit2 has methods to parse every object type in Git so you don't have * to work directly with the raw data. This is much faster and simpler * than trying to deal with the raw data yourself. */ /** * #### Commit Parsing * * [Parsing commit objects][pco] is simple and gives you access to all the * data in the commit - the author (name, email, datetime), committer * (same), tree, message, encoding and parent(s). * * [pco]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/commit */ static void commit_parsing(git_repository *repo) { const git_signature *author, *cmtter; git_commit *commit, *parent; git_oid oid; char oid_hex[GIT_OID_HEXSZ+1]; const char *message; unsigned int parents, p; int error; time_t time; printf("\n*Commit Parsing*\n"); git_oid_fromstr(&oid, "8496071c1b46c854b31185ea97743be6a8774479"); error = git_commit_lookup(&commit, repo, &oid); check_error(error, "looking up commit"); /** * Each of the properties of the commit object are accessible via methods, * including commonly needed variations, such as `git_commit_time` which * returns the author time and `git_commit_message` which gives you the * commit message (as a NUL-terminated string). */ message = git_commit_message(commit); author = git_commit_author(commit); cmtter = git_commit_committer(commit); time = git_commit_time(commit); /** * The author and committer methods return [git_signature] structures, * which give you name, email and `when`, which is a `git_time` structure, * giving you a timestamp and timezone offset. */ printf("Author: %s (%s)\nCommitter: %s (%s)\nDate: %s\nMessage: %s\n", author->name, author->email, cmtter->name, cmtter->email, ctime(&time), message); /** * Commits can have zero or more parents. The first (root) commit will * have no parents, most commits will have one (i.e. the commit it was * based on) and merge commits will have two or more. Commits can * technically have any number, though it's rare to have more than two. */ parents = git_commit_parentcount(commit); for (p = 0;p < parents;p++) { memset(oid_hex, 0, sizeof(oid_hex)); git_commit_parent(&parent, commit, p); git_oid_fmt(oid_hex, git_commit_id(parent)); printf("Parent: %s\n", oid_hex); git_commit_free(parent); } git_commit_free(commit); } /** * #### Tag Parsing * * You can parse and create tags with the [tag management API][tm], which * functions very similarly to the commit lookup, parsing and creation * methods, since the objects themselves are very similar. * * [tm]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/tag */ static void tag_parsing(git_repository *repo) { git_commit *commit; git_otype type; git_tag *tag; git_oid oid; const char *name, *message; int error; printf("\n*Tag Parsing*\n"); /** * We create an oid for the tag object if we know the SHA and look it up * the same way that we would a commit (or any other object). */ git_oid_fromstr(&oid, "b25fa35b38051e4ae45d4222e795f9df2e43f1d1"); error = git_tag_lookup(&tag, repo, &oid); check_error(error, "looking up tag"); /** * Now that we have the tag object, we can extract the information it * generally contains: the target (usually a commit object), the type of * the target object (usually 'commit'), the name ('v1.0'), the tagger (a * git_signature - name, email, timestamp), and the tag message. */ git_tag_target((git_object **)&commit, tag); name = git_tag_name(tag); /* "test" */ type = git_tag_target_type(tag); /* GIT_OBJ_COMMIT (otype enum) */ message = git_tag_message(tag); /* "tag message\n" */ printf("Tag Name: %s\nTag Type: %s\nTag Message: %s\n", name, git_object_type2string(type), message); /** * Free both the commit and tag after usage. */ git_commit_free(commit); git_tag_free(tag); } /** * #### Tree Parsing * * [Tree parsing][tp] is a bit different than the other objects, in that * we have a subtype which is the tree entry. This is not an actual * object type in Git, but a useful structure for parsing and traversing * tree entries. * * [tp]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/tree */ static void tree_parsing(git_repository *repo) { const git_tree_entry *entry; size_t cnt; git_object *obj; git_tree *tree; git_oid oid; printf("\n*Tree Parsing*\n"); /** * Create the oid and lookup the tree object just like the other objects. */ git_oid_fromstr(&oid, "f60079018b664e4e79329a7ef9559c8d9e0378d1"); git_tree_lookup(&tree, repo, &oid); /** * Getting the count of entries in the tree so you can iterate over them * if you want to. */ cnt = git_tree_entrycount(tree); /* 2 */ printf("tree entries: %d\n", (int) cnt); entry = git_tree_entry_byindex(tree, 0); printf("Entry name: %s\n", git_tree_entry_name(entry)); /* "README" */ /** * You can also access tree entries by name if you know the name of the * entry you're looking for. */ entry = git_tree_entry_byname(tree, "README"); git_tree_entry_name(entry); /* "README" */ /** * Once you have the entry object, you can access the content or subtree * (or commit, in the case of submodules) that it points to. You can also * get the mode if you want. */ git_tree_entry_to_object(&obj, repo, entry); /* blob */ /** * Remember to close the looked-up object and tree once you are done using it */ git_object_free(obj); git_tree_free(tree); } /** * #### Blob Parsing * * The last object type is the simplest and requires the least parsing * help. Blobs are just file contents and can contain anything, there is * no structure to it. The main advantage to using the [simple blob * api][ba] is that when you're creating blobs you don't have to calculate * the size of the content. There is also a helper for reading a file * from disk and writing it to the db and getting the oid back so you * don't have to do all those steps yourself. * * [ba]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/blob */ static void blob_parsing(git_repository *repo) { git_blob *blob; git_oid oid; printf("\n*Blob Parsing*\n"); git_oid_fromstr(&oid, "1385f264afb75a56a5bec74243be9b367ba4ca08"); git_blob_lookup(&blob, repo, &oid); /** * You can access a buffer with the raw contents of the blob directly. * Note that this buffer may not be contain ASCII data for certain blobs * (e.g. binary files): do not consider the buffer a NULL-terminated * string, and use the `git_blob_rawsize` attribute to find out its exact * size in bytes * */ printf("Blob Size: %ld\n", (long)git_blob_rawsize(blob)); /* 8 */ git_blob_rawcontent(blob); /* "content" */ /** * Free the blob after usage. */ git_blob_free(blob); } /** * ### Revwalking * * The libgit2 [revision walking api][rw] provides methods to traverse the * directed graph created by the parent pointers of the commit objects. * Since all commits point back to the commit that came directly before * them, you can walk this parentage as a graph and find all the commits * that were ancestors of (reachable from) a given starting point. This * can allow you to create `git log` type functionality. * * [rw]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/revwalk */ static void revwalking(git_repository *repo) { const git_signature *cauth; const char *cmsg; int error; git_revwalk *walk; git_commit *wcommit; git_oid oid; printf("\n*Revwalking*\n"); git_oid_fromstr(&oid, "5b5b025afb0b4c913b4c338a42934a3863bf3644"); /** * To use the revwalker, create a new walker, tell it how you want to sort * the output and then push one or more starting points onto the walker. * If you want to emulate the output of `git log` you would push the SHA * of the commit that HEAD points to into the walker and then start * traversing them. You can also 'hide' commits that you want to stop at * or not see any of their ancestors. So if you want to emulate `git log * branch1..branch2`, you would push the oid of `branch2` and hide the oid * of `branch1`. */ git_revwalk_new(&walk, repo); git_revwalk_sorting(walk, GIT_SORT_TOPOLOGICAL | GIT_SORT_REVERSE); git_revwalk_push(walk, &oid); /** * Now that we have the starting point pushed onto the walker, we start * asking for ancestors. It will return them in the sorting order we asked * for as commit oids. We can then lookup and parse the committed pointed * at by the returned OID; note that this operation is specially fast * since the raw contents of the commit object will be cached in memory */ while ((git_revwalk_next(&oid, walk)) == 0) { error = git_commit_lookup(&wcommit, repo, &oid); check_error(error, "looking up commit during revwalk"); cmsg = git_commit_message(wcommit); cauth = git_commit_author(wcommit); printf("%s (%s)\n", cmsg, cauth->email); git_commit_free(wcommit); } /** * Like the other objects, be sure to free the revwalker when you're done * to prevent memory leaks. Also, make sure that the repository being * walked it not deallocated while the walk is in progress, or it will * result in undefined behavior */ git_revwalk_free(walk); } /** * ### Index File Manipulation * * The [index file API][gi] allows you to read, traverse, update and write * the Git index file (sometimes thought of as the staging area). * * [gi]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/index */ static void index_walking(git_repository *repo) { git_index *index; unsigned int i, ecount; printf("\n*Index Walking*\n"); /** * You can either open the index from the standard location in an open * repository, as we're doing here, or you can open and manipulate any * index file with `git_index_open_bare()`. The index for the repository * will be located and loaded from disk. */ git_repository_index(&index, repo); /** * For each entry in the index, you can get a bunch of information * including the SHA (oid), path and mode which map to the tree objects * that are written out. It also has filesystem properties to help * determine what to inspect for changes (ctime, mtime, dev, ino, uid, * gid, file_size and flags) All these properties are exported publicly in * the `git_index_entry` struct */ ecount = git_index_entrycount(index); for (i = 0; i < ecount; ++i) { const git_index_entry *e = git_index_get_byindex(index, i); printf("path: %s\n", e->path); printf("mtime: %d\n", (int)e->mtime.seconds); printf("fs: %d\n", (int)e->file_size); } git_index_free(index); } /** * ### References * * The [reference API][ref] allows you to list, resolve, create and update * references such as branches, tags and remote references (everything in * the .git/refs directory). * * [ref]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/reference */ static void reference_listing(git_repository *repo) { git_strarray ref_list; unsigned i; printf("\n*Reference Listing*\n"); /** * Here we will implement something like `git for-each-ref` simply listing * out all available references and the object SHA they resolve to. * * Now that we have the list of reference names, we can lookup each ref * one at a time and resolve them to the SHA, then print both values out. */ git_reference_list(&ref_list, repo); for (i = 0; i < ref_list.count; ++i) { git_reference *ref; char oid_hex[GIT_OID_HEXSZ+1] = GIT_OID_HEX_ZERO; const char *refname; refname = ref_list.strings[i]; git_reference_lookup(&ref, repo, refname); switch (git_reference_type(ref)) { case GIT_REF_OID: git_oid_fmt(oid_hex, git_reference_target(ref)); printf("%s [%s]\n", refname, oid_hex); break; case GIT_REF_SYMBOLIC: printf("%s => %s\n", refname, git_reference_symbolic_target(ref)); break; default: fprintf(stderr, "Unexpected reference type\n"); exit(1); } git_reference_free(ref); } git_strarray_free(&ref_list); } /** * ### Config Files * * The [config API][config] allows you to list and updatee config values * in any of the accessible config file locations (system, global, local). * * [config]: http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#HEAD/group/config */ static void config_files(const char *repo_path, git_repository* repo) { const char *email; char config_path[256]; int32_t autocorrect; git_config *cfg; git_config *snap_cfg; printf("\n*Config Listing*\n"); /** * Open a config object so we can read global values from it. */ sprintf(config_path, "%s/config", repo_path); check_error(git_config_open_ondisk(&cfg, config_path), "opening config"); if (git_config_get_int32(&autocorrect, cfg, "help.autocorrect") == 0) printf("Autocorrect: %d\n", autocorrect); check_error(git_repository_config_snapshot(&snap_cfg, repo), "config snapshot"); git_config_get_string(&email, snap_cfg, "user.email"); printf("Email: %s\n", email); /** * Remember to free the configurations after usage. */ git_config_free(cfg); git_config_free(snap_cfg); }