text: /*
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   * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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   * modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into
   * a combined executable.)
   *
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   * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   * General Public License for more details.
   *
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   */
  #ifndef INCLUDE_git_signature_h__
  #define INCLUDE_git_signature_h__
  
  #include "common.h"
  #include "types.h"
  
  /**
   * @file git2/signature.h
   * @brief Git signature creation
   * @defgroup git_signature Git signature creation
   * @ingroup Git
   * @{
   */
  GIT_BEGIN_DECL
  
  /**
   * Create a new action signature. The signature must be freed
   * manually or using git_signature_free
   *
   * @param name name of the person
   * @param mail email of the person
   * @param time time when the action happened
   * @param offset timezone offset in minutes for the time
   * @return the new sig, NULL on out of memory
   */
  GIT_EXTERN(git_signature *) git_signature_new(const char *name, const char *email, git_time_t time, int offset);
  
  /**
   * Create a new action signature with a timestamp of 'now'. The
   * signature must be freed manually or using git_signature_free
   *
   * @param name name of the person
   * @param email email of the person
   * @return the new sig, NULL on out of memory
   */
  GIT_EXTERN(git_signature *) git_signature_now(const char *name, const char *email);
  
  
  /**
   * Create a copy of an existing signature.
   *
   * All internal strings are also duplicated.
   * @param sig signature to duplicated
   * @return a copy of sig, NULL on out of memory
   */
  GIT_EXTERN(git_signature *) git_signature_dup(const git_signature *sig);
  
  /**
   * Free an existing signature
   *
   * @param sig signature to free
   */
  GIT_EXTERN(void) git_signature_free(git_signature *sig);
  
  /** @} */
  GIT_END_DECL
  #endif
  