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-rw-r--r--include/git2/repository.h8
-rw-r--r--src/repository.c6
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/git2/repository.h b/include/git2/repository.h
index ed837b359..f55ab798f 100644
--- a/include/git2/repository.h
+++ b/include/git2/repository.h
@@ -137,6 +137,14 @@ GIT_EXTERN(int) git_repository_open_ext(
GIT_EXTERN(int) git_repository_open_bare(git_repository **out, const char *bare_path);
/**
+ * Create a new repository with neither backends nor config object
+ *
+ * Note that this is only useful if you wish to associate the repository
+ * with a non-filesystem-backed object database and config store.
+ */
+GIT_EXTERN(int) git_repository_new(git_repository **out);
+
+/**
* Free a previously allocated repository
*
* Note that after a repository is free'd, all the objects it has spawned
diff --git a/src/repository.c b/src/repository.c
index 64ab2f4db..72b5a079a 100644
--- a/src/repository.c
+++ b/src/repository.c
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ static git_repository *repository_alloc(void)
return repo;
}
+int git_repository_new(git_repository **out)
+{
+ *out = repository_alloc();
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int load_config_data(git_repository *repo)
{
int is_bare;