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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDE_git_signature_h__
+#define INCLUDE_git_signature_h__
+
+#include "common.h"
+#include "types.h"
+
+/**
+ * @file git2/signature.h
+ * @brief Git signature creation
+ * @defgroup git_signature Git signature creation
+ * @ingroup Git
+ * @{
+ */
+GIT_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * 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
+ * of a colon separator).
+ *
+ * @param out new signature
+ * @param buf signature string
+ * @return 0 on success, GIT_EINVALID if the signature is not parseable, 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
+ * duplicated.
+ *
+ * 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);
+
+/** @} */
+GIT_END_DECL
+#endif