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-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-hash.txt50
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt10
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-hash.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-hash.txt
index c784d3edcb..e5061e0677 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-hash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-hash.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,52 @@
hash API
========
-Talk about <hash.h>
+The hash API is a collection of simple hash table functions. Users are expected
+to implement their own hashing.
-(Linus)
+Data Structures
+---------------
+
+`struct hash_table`::
+
+ The hash table structure. The `array` member points to the hash table
+ entries. The `size` member counts the total number of valid and invalid
+ entries in the table. The `nr` member keeps track of the number of
+ valid entries.
+
+`struct hash_table_entry`::
+
+ An opaque structure representing an entry in the hash table. The `hash`
+ member is the entry's hash key and the `ptr` member is the entry's
+ value.
+
+Functions
+---------
+
+`init_hash`::
+
+ Initialize the hash table.
+
+`free_hash`::
+
+ Release memory associated with the hash table.
+
+`insert_hash`::
+
+ Insert a pointer into the hash table. If an entry with that hash
+ already exists, a pointer to the existing entry's value is returned.
+ Otherwise NULL is returned. This allows callers to implement
+ chaining, etc.
+
+`lookup_hash`::
+
+ Lookup an entry in the hash table. If an entry with that hash exists
+ the entry's value is returned. Otherwise NULL is returned.
+
+`for_each_hash`::
+
+ Call a function for each entry in the hash table. The function is
+ expected to take the entry's value as its only argument and return an
+ int. If the function returns a negative int the loop is aborted
+ immediately. Otherwise, the return value is accumulated and the sum
+ returned upon completion of the loop.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 7438149249..a0e0f850f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ strbuf API actually relies on the string being free of NULs.
strbufs has some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
-. The `buf` member is never NULL, so you it can be used in any usual C
+. The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C
string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by
`strbuf_init()` or by `= STRBUF_INIT` before the invariants, though.
+
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Data structures
* `struct strbuf`
-This is string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to
+This is the string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to
determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides access to
the string itself.
@@ -253,3 +253,9 @@ same behaviour as well.
comments are considered contents to be removed or not.
`launch_editor`::
+
+ Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer
+ with the file's contents upon the user completing their editing. The
+ third argument can be used to set the environment which the editor is
+ run in. If the buffer is NULL the editor is launched as usual but the
+ file's contents are not read into the buffer upon completion.