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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_hashsig_h__
+#define INCLUDE_hashsig_h__
+
+#include "common.h"
+
+/**
+ * Similarity signature of line hashes for a buffer
+ */
+typedef struct git_hashsig git_hashsig;
+
+typedef enum {
+	GIT_HASHSIG_NORMAL = 0, /* use all data */
+	GIT_HASHSIG_IGNORE_WHITESPACE = 1, /* ignore whitespace */
+	GIT_HASHSIG_SMART_WHITESPACE = 2, /* ignore \r and all space after \n */
+} git_hashsig_option_t;
+
+/**
+ * Build a similarity signature for a buffer
+ *
+ * If you have passed a whitespace-ignoring buffer, then the whitespace
+ * will be removed from the buffer while it is being processed, modifying
+ * the buffer in place.  Sorry about that!
+ *
+ * This will return an error if the buffer doesn't contain enough data to
+ * compute a valid signature.
+ *
+ * @param out The array of hashed runs representing the file content
+ * @param buf The contents of the file to hash
+ * @param buflen The length of the data at `buf`
+ * @param generate_pairwise_hashes Should pairwise runs be hashed
+ */
+extern int git_hashsig_create(
+	git_hashsig **out,
+	const char *buf,
+	size_t buflen,
+	git_hashsig_option_t opts);
+
+/**
+ * Build a similarity signature from a file
+ *
+ * This walks through the file, only loading a maximum of 4K of file data at
+ * a time.  Otherwise, it acts just like `git_hashsig_create`.
+ *
+ * This will return an error if the file doesn't contain enough data to
+ * compute a valid signature.
+ */
+extern int git_hashsig_create_fromfile(
+	git_hashsig **out,
+	const char *path,
+	git_hashsig_option_t opts);
+
+/**
+ * Release memory for a content similarity signature
+ */
+extern void git_hashsig_free(git_hashsig *sig);
+
+/**
+ * Measure similarity between two files
+ *
+ * @return <0 for error, [0 to 100] as similarity score
+ */
+extern int git_hashsig_compare(
+	const git_hashsig *a,
+	const git_hashsig *b);
+
+#endif