core: Add API (and standard concept for) content checksum

There are a few cases for knowing whether a commit has identical
content to another commit.  Some people want to do a "promotion workflow",
where the content of a commit on a tesitng branch is then "promoted"
to a production branch with `ostree commit --tree=ref`.

Another use case I just hit in rpm-ostree deals with
[jigdo](https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/1081) where we're
importing RPMs on both the client and server, and will be using the
content checksum, since the client/server cases inject different metadata
into the commit object.

Closes: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1315

Closes: #1449
Approved by: jlebon
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Colin Walters authored and Atomic Bot committed 2018-02-12 19:03:18 +00:00
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@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ ostree_validate_structureof_dirtree
ostree_validate_structureof_dirmeta
ostree_commit_get_parent
ostree_commit_get_timestamp
ostree_commit_get_content_checksum
ostree_check_version
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