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hashmap: improve struct hashmap member documentation

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Karsten Blees 11 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt

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`struct hashmap`::

The hash table structure.
The hash table structure. Members can be used as follows, but should
not be modified directly:
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The `size` member keeps track of the total number of entries. The `cmpfn`
member is a function used to compare two entries for equality. The `table` and
`tablesize` members store the hash table and its size, respectively.
The `size` member keeps track of the total number of entries (0 means the
hashmap is empty).
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`tablesize` is the allocated size of the hash table. A non-0 value indicates
that the hashmap is initialized. It may also be useful for statistical purposes
(i.e. `size / tablesize` is the current load factor).
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`cmpfn` stores the comparison function specified in `hashmap_init()`. In
advanced scenarios, it may be useful to change this, e.g. to switch between
case-sensitive and case-insensitive lookup.

`struct hashmap_entry`::


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