An object read from the database
Create a new object database with no backends
Create a new object database and automatically add the two default backends:
Add a custom backend to an existing Object DB
Close an open object database
Read an object from the database
Read the header of an object from the database, without reading its full contents
Write an object to the database
Determine if the given object can be found in the object database
Determine the object-ID (sha1 hash) of the given git_rawobj
Release all memory used by the obj structure