Junio C Hamano 6c52614864 csum-file: introduce sha1file_checkpoint ...

It is useful to be able to rewind a check-summed file to a certain
previous state after writing data into it using sha1write() API. The
fast-import command does this after streaming a blob data to the packfile
being generated and then noticing that the same blob has already been
written, and it does this with a private code truncate_pack() that is
commented as "Yes, this is a layering violation".

Introduce two API functions, sha1file_checkpoint(), that allows the caller
to save a state of a sha1file, and then later revert it to the saved state.
Use it to reimplement truncate_pack().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2011-11-30 14:27:59 -08:00

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