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* This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
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#ifndef INCLUDE_git_signature_h__
#define INCLUDE_git_signature_h__
* @brief Git signature creation
* @defgroup git_signature Git signature creation
* Create a new action signature.
* Call `git_signature_free()` to free the data.
* Note: angle brackets ('<' and '>') characters are not allowed
* to be used in either the `name` or the `email` parameter.
* @param out new signature, in case of error NULL
* @param name name of the person
* @param email email of the person
* @param time time (in seconds from epoch) when the action happened
* @param offset timezone offset (in minutes) for the time
* @return 0 or an error code
GIT_EXTERN(int) git_signature_new(git_signature **out, const char *name, const char *email, git_time_t time, int offset);
* Create a new action signature with a timestamp of 'now'.
* Call `git_signature_free()` to free the data.
* @param out new signature, in case of error NULL
* @param name name of the person
* @param email email of the person
* @return 0 or an error code
GIT_EXTERN(int) git_signature_now(git_signature **out, const char *name, const char *email);
* Create a new action signature with default user and now timestamp.
* This looks up the user.name and user.email from the configuration and
* uses the current time as the timestamp, and creates a new signature
* based on that information. It will return GIT_ENOTFOUND if either the
* user.name or user.email are not set.
* @param out new signature
* @param repo repository pointer
* @return 0 on success, GIT_ENOTFOUND if config is missing, or error code
GIT_EXTERN(int) git_signature_default(git_signature **out, git_repository *repo);
* Create a new signature by parsing the given buffer, which is
* expected to be in the format "Real Name <email> timestamp tzoffset",
* where `timestamp` is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch and
* `tzoffset` is the timezone offset in `hhmm` format (note the lack
* @param out new signature
* @param buf signature string
* @return 0 on success, or an error code
GIT_EXTERN(int) git_signature_from_buffer(git_signature **out, const char *buf);
* Create a copy of an existing signature. All internal strings are also
* Call `git_signature_free()` to free the data.
* @param dest pointer where to store the copy
* @param sig signature to duplicate
* @return 0 or an error code
GIT_EXTERN(int) git_signature_dup(git_signature **dest, const git_signature *sig);
* Free an existing signature.
* Because the signature is not an opaque structure, it is legal to free it
* manually, but be sure to free the "name" and "email" strings in addition
* to the structure itself.
* @param sig signature to free
GIT_EXTERN(void) git_signature_free(git_signature *sig);