1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/csum-file.h b/csum-file.h
index 36c7c5585f..7c73da0a40 100644
--- a/csum-file.h
+++ b/csum-file.h
@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ int hashfile_truncate(struct hashfile *, struct hashfile_checkpoint *);
 struct hashfile *hashfd(int fd, const char *name);
 struct hashfile *hashfd_check(const char *name);
 struct hashfile *hashfd_throughput(int fd, const char *name, struct progress *tp);
+
+/*
+ * Free the hashfile without flushing its contents to disk. This only
+ * needs to be called when not calling `finalize_hashfile()`.
+ */
+void free_hashfile(struct hashfile *f);
+
+/*
+ * Finalize the hashfile by flushing data to disk and free'ing it.
+ */
 int finalize_hashfile(struct hashfile *, unsigned char *, enum fsync_component, unsigned int);
 void discard_hashfile(struct hashfile *);
 void hashwrite(struct hashfile *, const void *, unsigned int);