Add API git_signature_new_now

Most tags will have a timestamp of whenever the code is running and
dealing with time and timezones is error-prone. Optimize for this case
by adding a function which causes the signature to be created with a
current timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/git2/signature.h b/include/git2/signature.h
index b0995c8b2..013ce7460 100644
--- a/include/git2/signature.h
+++ b/include/git2/signature.h
@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ GIT_BEGIN_DECL
 GIT_EXTERN(git_signature *) git_signature_new(const char *name, const char *email, git_time_t time, int offset);
 
 /**
+ * Create a new action signature with a timestamp of 'now'. The
+ * signature must be freed manually or using git_signature_free
+ *
+ * @param name name of the person
+ * @param email email of the person
+ * @return the new sig, NULL on out of memory
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(git_signature *) git_signature_new_now(const char *name, const char *email);
+
+
+/**
  * Create a copy of an existing signature.
  *
  * All internal strings are also duplicated.