Method

GgitRepositorylookup_reference

Declaration [src]

GgitRef*
ggit_repository_lookup_reference (
  GgitRepository* repository,
  const gchar* name,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Lookups a reference by its name in repository. The returned GgitRef must be freed with g_object_unref().

Parameters

name const gchar*
 

The long name for the reference (e.g. HEAD, ref/heads/master, refs/tags/v0.1.0, …).

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
error GError **
  The return location for a GError*, or NULL.

Return value

Returns: GgitRef
 

The searched reference.

 The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
 The return value can be NULL.