str: introduce `git_str` for internal, `git_buf` is externalethomson/gitstr

libgit2 has two distinct requirements that were previously solved by
`git_buf`.  We require:

1. A general purpose string class that provides a number of utility APIs
   for manipulating data (eg, concatenating, truncating, etc).
2. A structure that we can use to return strings to callers that they
   can take ownership of.

By using a single class (`git_buf`) for both of these purposes, we have
confused the API to the point that refactorings are difficult and
reasoning about correctness is also difficult.

Move the utility class `git_buf` to be called `git_str`: this represents
its general purpose, as an internal string buffer class.  The name also
is an homage to Junio Hamano ("gitstr").

The public API remains `git_buf`, and has a much smaller footprint.  It
is generally only used as an "out" param with strict requirements that
follow the documentation.  (Exceptions exist for some legacy APIs to
avoid breaking callers unnecessarily.)

Utility functions exist to convert a user-specified `git_buf` to a
`git_str` so that we can call internal functions, then converting it
back again.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/object.h b/src/object.h
index 4b6793612..66be57557 100644
--- a/src/object.h
+++ b/src/object.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ git_object_t git_object_stringn2type(const char *str, size_t len);
 
 int git_oid__parse(git_oid *oid, const char **buffer_out, const char *buffer_end, const char *header);
 
-void git_oid__writebuf(git_buf *buf, const char *header, const git_oid *oid);
+void git_oid__writebuf(git_str *buf, const char *header, const git_oid *oid);
 
 bool git_object__is_valid(
 	git_repository *repo, const git_oid *id, git_object_t expected_type);