streaming: a new API to read from the object store

Given an object name, use open_istream() to get a git_istream handle
that you can read_istream() from as if you are using read(2) to read
the contents of the object, and close it with close_istream() when
you are done.

Currently, we do not do anything fancy--it just calls read_sha1_file()
and keeps the contents in memory as a whole, and carve it out as you
request with read_istream().

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 320ccc7a1c..83bd539eb3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ LIB_H += sha1-lookup.h
 LIB_H += sideband.h
 LIB_H += sigchain.h
 LIB_H += strbuf.h
+LIB_H += streaming.h
 LIB_H += string-list.h
 LIB_H += submodule.h
 LIB_H += tag.h
@@ -657,6 +658,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += shallow.o
 LIB_OBJS += sideband.o
 LIB_OBJS += sigchain.o
 LIB_OBJS += strbuf.o
+LIB_OBJS += streaming.o
 LIB_OBJS += string-list.o
 LIB_OBJS += submodule.o
 LIB_OBJS += symlinks.o