fsck: detect trailing garbage in all object types

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index a50a61a19787de94daa9d66caa9fcccca58081fe..ed458957060466e427ce5894a0ddd12d504b564e 100644 (file)
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1139,6 +1139,19 @@ extern int finalize_object_file(const char *tmpfile, const char *filename);
 
 extern int has_sha1_pack(const unsigned char *sha1);
 
+/*
+ * Open the loose object at path, check its sha1, and return the contents,
+ * type, and size. If the object is a blob, then "contents" may return NULL,
+ * to allow streaming of large blobs.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, negative on error (details may be written to stderr).
+ */
+int read_loose_object(const char *path,
+                     const unsigned char *expected_sha1,
+                     enum object_type *type,
+                     unsigned long *size,
+                     void **contents);
+
 /*
  * Return true iff we have an object named sha1, whether local or in
  * an alternate object database, and whether packed or loose.  This