From: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>

Two basic functions are provided:
- convert_object_file Takes an object file it's type and hash algorithm
  and converts it into the equivalent object file that would
  have been generated with hash algorithm "to".

  For blob objects there is no conversation to be done and it is an
  error to use this function on them.

  For commit, tree, and tag objects embedded oids are replaced by the
  oids of the objects they refer to with those objects and their
  object ids reencoded in with the hash algorithm "to".  Signatures
  are rearranged so that they remain valid after the object has
  been reencoded.

- repo_oid_to_algop which takes an oid that refers to an object file
  and returns the oid of the equivalent object file generated
  with the target hash algorithm.

The pair of files object-file-convert.c and object-file-convert.h are
introduced to hold as much of this logic as possible to keep this
conversion logic cleanly separated from everything else and in the
hopes that someday the code will be clean enough git can support
compiling out support for sha1 and the various conversion functions.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
---
 Makefile              |  1 +
 object-file-convert.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 object-file-convert.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 82 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 object-file-convert.c
 create mode 100644 object-file-convert.h

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 577630936535..f7e824f25cda 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile

@@ -1073,6 +1073,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += notes-cache.o
 LIB_OBJS += notes-merge.o
 LIB_OBJS += notes-utils.o
 LIB_OBJS += notes.o
+LIB_OBJS += object-file-convert.o
 LIB_OBJS += object-file.o
 LIB_OBJS += object-name.o
 LIB_OBJS += object.o

diff --git a/object-file-convert.c b/object-file-convert.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4777aba83636
--- /dev/null
+++ b/object-file-convert.c

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#include "git-compat-util.h"
+#include "gettext.h"
+#include "strbuf.h"
+#include "repository.h"
+#include "hash-ll.h"
+#include "object.h"
+#include "object-file-convert.h"
+
+int repo_oid_to_algop(struct repository *repo, const struct object_id *src,
+		      const struct git_hash_algo *to, struct object_id *dest)
+{
+	/*
+	 * If the source algorithm is not set, then we're using the
+	 * default hash algorithm for that object.
+	 */
+	const struct git_hash_algo *from =
+		src->algo ? &hash_algos[src->algo] : repo->hash_algo;
+
+	if (from == to) {
+		if (src != dest)
+			oidcpy(dest, src);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	return -1;
+}

diff --git a/object-file-convert.h b/object-file-convert.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a4f802aa8eea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/object-file-convert.h

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#ifndef OBJECT_CONVERT_H
+#define OBJECT_CONVERT_H
+
+struct repository;
+struct object_id;
+struct git_hash_algo;
+struct strbuf;
+#include "object.h"
+
+int repo_oid_to_algop(struct repository *repo, const struct object_id *src,
+		      const struct git_hash_algo *to, struct object_id *dest);
+
+/*
+ * Convert an object file from one hash algorithm to another algorithm.
+ * Return -1 on failure, 0 on success.
+ */
+int convert_object_file(struct strbuf *outbuf,
+			const struct git_hash_algo *from,
+			const struct git_hash_algo *to,
+			const void *buf, size_t len,
+			enum object_type type,
+			int gentle);