Ggit.Repository.lookup_reference

### Method

# Ggit Repositorylookup_reference

#### Declaration [src]

    GgitRef*
    ggit_repository_lookup_reference (
      GgitRepository* repository,
      const gchar* name,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Lookups a reference by its name in `repository`. The returned `GgitRef` must be freed with g_object_unref().

#### Parameters

`name` | `const gchar*`
| The long name for the reference (e.g. HEAD, ref/heads/master, refs/tags/v0.1.0, …).
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
| The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
`error` | `GError **`
| The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

#### Return value

Returns: | `GgitRef`
| The searched reference.
| The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
| The return value can be `NULL`.