Two basic functions are provided:
- convert_object_file Takes an object file it's type and hash algorithm
and converts it into the equivalent object file that would
have been generated with hash algorithm "to".
For blob objects there is no conversation to be done and it is an
error to use this function on them.
For commit, tree, and tag objects embedded oids are replaced by the
oids of the objects they refer to with those objects and their
object ids reencoded in with the hash algorithm "to". Signatures
are rearranged so that they remain valid after the object has
been reencoded.
- repo_oid_to_algop which takes an oid that refers to an object file
and returns the oid of the equivalent object file generated
with the target hash algorithm.
The pair of files object-file-convert.c and object-file-convert.h are
introduced to hold as much of this logic as possible to keep this
conversion logic cleanly separated from everything else and in the
hopes that someday the code will be clean enough git can support
compiling out support for sha1 and the various conversion functions.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eric W. Biederman