refs: move doc to refs.h

Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt
to refs.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.

Also documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h
index 730d05ad91..545029c6d8 100644
--- a/refs.h
+++ b/refs.h
@@ -310,19 +310,35 @@ int refs_for_each_branch_ref(struct ref_store *refs,
 int refs_for_each_remote_ref(struct ref_store *refs,
 			     each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
 
+/* just iterates the head ref. */
 int head_ref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
+
+/* iterates all refs. */
 int for_each_ref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
+
+/**
+ * iterates all refs which have a defined prefix and strips that prefix from
+ * the passed variable refname.
+ */
 int for_each_ref_in(const char *prefix, each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
+
 int refs_for_each_fullref_in(struct ref_store *refs, const char *prefix,
 			     each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data,
 			     unsigned int broken);
 int for_each_fullref_in(const char *prefix, each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data,
 			unsigned int broken);
+
+/**
+ * iterate refs from the respective area.
+ */
 int for_each_tag_ref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
 int for_each_branch_ref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
 int for_each_remote_ref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
 int for_each_replace_ref(struct repository *r, each_repo_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data);
+
+/* iterates all refs that match the specified glob pattern. */
 int for_each_glob_ref(each_ref_fn fn, const char *pattern, void *cb_data);
+
 int for_each_glob_ref_in(each_ref_fn fn, const char *pattern,
 			 const char *prefix, void *cb_data);
 
@@ -791,6 +807,41 @@ int reflog_expire(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 int ref_storage_backend_exists(const char *name);
 
 struct ref_store *get_main_ref_store(struct repository *r);
+
+/**
+ * Submodules
+ * ----------
+ *
+ * If you want to iterate the refs of a submodule you first need to add the
+ * submodules object database. You can do this by a code-snippet like
+ * this:
+ *
+ * 	const char *path = "path/to/submodule"
+ * 	if (add_submodule_odb(path))
+ * 		die("Error submodule '%s' not populated.", path);
+ *
+ * `add_submodule_odb()` will return zero on success. If you
+ * do not do this you will get an error for each ref that it does not point
+ * to a valid object.
+ *
+ * Note: As a side-effect of this you cannot safely assume that all
+ * objects you lookup are available in superproject. All submodule objects
+ * will be available the same way as the superprojects objects.
+ *
+ * Example:
+ * --------
+ *
+ * ----
+ * static int handle_remote_ref(const char *refname,
+ * 		const unsigned char *sha1, int flags, void *cb_data)
+ * {
+ * 	struct strbuf *output = cb_data;
+ * 	strbuf_addf(output, "%s\n", refname);
+ * 	return 0;
+ * }
+ *
+ */
+
 /*
  * Return the ref_store instance for the specified submodule. For the
  * main repository, use submodule==NULL; such a call cannot fail. For