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+#ifndef BRANCH_H
+#define BRANCH_H
+
+/* Functions for acting on the information about branches. */
+
+/*
+ * Creates a new branch, where head is the branch currently checked
+ * out, name is the new branch name, start_name is the name of the
+ * existing branch that the new branch should start from, force
+ * enables overwriting an existing (non-head) branch, reflog creates a
+ * reflog for the branch, and track causes the new branch to be
+ * configured to merge the remote branch that start_name is a tracking
+ * branch for (if any).
+ */
+void create_branch(const char *head, const char *name, const char *start_name,
+		   int force, int reflog,
+		   int clobber_head, int quiet, enum branch_track track);
+
+/*
+ * Validates that the requested branch may be created, returning the
+ * interpreted ref in ref, force indicates whether (non-head) branches
+ * may be overwritten. A non-zero return value indicates that the force
+ * parameter was non-zero and the branch already exists.
+ *
+ * Contrary to all of the above, when attr_only is 1, the caller is
+ * not interested in verifying if it is Ok to update the named
+ * branch to point at a potentially different commit. It is merely
+ * asking if it is OK to change some attribute for the named branch
+ * (e.g. tracking upstream).
+ *
+ * NEEDSWORK: This needs to be split into two separate functions in the
+ * longer run for sanity.
+ *
+ */
+int validate_new_branchname(const char *name, struct strbuf *ref, int force, int attr_only);
+
+/*
+ * Remove information about the state of working on the current
+ * branch. (E.g., MERGE_HEAD)
+ */
+void remove_branch_state(void);
+
+/*
+ * Configure local branch "local" as downstream to branch "remote"
+ * from remote "origin".  Used by git branch --set-upstream.
+ */
+#define BRANCH_CONFIG_VERBOSE 01
+extern void install_branch_config(int flag, const char *local, const char *origin, const char *remote);
+
+/*
+ * Read branch description
+ */
+extern int read_branch_desc(struct strbuf *, const char *branch_name);
+
+#endif