Ggit.Index.open
Description: Reference for Ggit.Index.open

### Function

# Ggit Indexopen

#### Declaration [src]

    GgitIndex*
    ggit_index_open (
      GFile* file,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Create a new bare Git index object as a memory representation of the Git index file in `file`, without a repository to back it.

#### Parameters

`file` | `GFile`
| A `GFile`.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`error` | `GError **`
| The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

#### Return value

Returns: | `GgitIndex`
| A `GgitIndex` or `NULL` if an error occurred.
| The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
| The return value can be `NULL`.