git_config_backend_from_string and git_config_backend_from_values are publicly documented but are hidden symbols

The C functions git_config_backend_from_string and git_config_backend_from_values added in 1.8.0 are documented here and here, respectively. The documentation does not mention anything about their being private / internal-use functions. Other functions in sys/config.h are GIT_EXTERN and have default visibility. However, these two functions are merely extern and have hidden visibility. This makes it impossible to use them from a shared library (and, thus, impossible to use in pygit2).

Either the documentation should be updated to reflect that they are hidden symbols, or they should be made GIT_EXTERN like all other functions in that header. They are the only two functions in that header that aren't GIT_EXTERN. Much bigger hoops have to be jumped-through in order to have an in-memory backend without these functions (all the callbacks have to be implemented, and there are many), so my recommendation is to make these GIT_EXTERN.

I'm happing to post a pull request to make these GIT_EXTERN if that's the approved approach, but I didn't want to presume that's correct.

Start with sys/config.h and the two linked reference pages. Compare these declarations with the neighboring GIT_EXTERN functions and confirm whether the project intends them to be public or internal. Done means the chosen resolution—exporting the functions or documenting them as hidden—is applied consistently.