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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) the libgit2 contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libgit2, distributed under the GNU GPL v2 with
+ * a Linking Exception. For full terms see the included COPYING file.
+ */
+
+#include "cli.h"
+#include "cmd.h"
+
+const cli_cmd_spec *cli_cmd_spec_byname(const char *name)
+{
+ const cli_cmd_spec *cmd;
+
+ for (cmd = cli_cmds; cmd->name; cmd++) {
+ if (!strcmp(cmd->name, name))
+ return cmd;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}