Apologies for the delay. This release is chunky,
but you're probably used to chunky releases by now.
Full changelog follows:
Internal changes
+ Added support for decomposed Unicode paths in Mac OS X
+ Added support for junctions in win32
+ Fixed issues with HTTP redirects in the network stack
+ Performance improvements (as always)
git2/blame.h
+ added full support for blame operations
git2/blob.h
+ added `git_blob_filtered_content` to load blobs in
memory with their corresponding filters applied
git2/branch.h
+ added branch iterators as an alternative to the
callback-based API
git2/buffer.h
+ exported the git_buf struct to allow binary buffers
to be passed from/to the library. This simplifies
several APIs
git2/checkout.h
+ implemented additional checkout options ('skip unmerged',
'use ours' and 'use theirs')
git2/clone.h
+ simplified the clone API
+ added new `git_clone_into` to clone into an existing
(empty) repository
git2/commit.h
+ added APIs to access the raw (uncleaned) text of a commit
message
git2/common.h
+ added global options to set the default paths to load
templates from
git2/config.h
+ added multivar iterators
+ added globbing iterator
+ added `git_config_foreach_match` to perform operations
on every single var in a config file
git2/diff.h
+ restructured and simplified the diff API
git2/filter.h
+ added external APIs to configure and apply custom filters
to checked out blobs
git2/index.h
+ `git_index_read` can now force a reload of the index file
even if it hasn't changed on-disk
git2/indexer.h
+ improved the streaming indexer APIs
git2/merge.h
+ added support for merge!
git2/object.h
+ added helper API to lookup a generic object by path
git2/pack.h
+ added progress callbacks to the packbuilder
git2/patch.h
+ added support for patch generation as part of the Diff
API revamp
git2/pathspec.h
+ added helper APIs to work with pathspecs and match files
in the workdir or diffs
git2/push.h
+ added progress callbacks to push
git2/reflog.h
+ changed reflog APIs to work on reference names instead of
the references themselves, so they become less racy
git2/remote.h
+ added support for setting refspecs on remotes, either at
creation or on existing ones
+ simplified the remotes API
git2/revwalk.h
+ add API to simplify parents during a walk
git2/signature.h
+ add helper to create a signature with the default values for
a repository (i.e. the set `user.name` and `user.email` values,
and the current time)
git2/submodules.h
+ improve the status detection for submodules
git2/sys/
+ exported many new internal APIs, such as pluggabe transport
APIs
-vmg, out
The callback-based method of listing remote references dates back to the
beginning of the network code's lifetime, when we didn't know any
better.
We need to keep the list around for update_tips() after disconnect() so
let's make use of this to simply give the user a pointer to the array so
they can write straightforward code instead of having to go through a
callback.
Removing arbitrary refspecs makes things more complex to reason
about. Instead, let the user set the fetch and push refspec list to
whatever they want it to be.
Create a git_branch_iterator type which is equivalent to the foreach but
lets us write loops instead of callbacks.
Since the introduction of git_reference_shorthand(), the added value of
passing the name is reduced.
There are a number of cases where it is convenient to be able to
fetch and "claim" the current error string, clearing the error.
This is helpful when you need to call some code that may alter
the error and you want to restore it later on and/or report it via
some other mechanism.
In git_checkout_tree, the first check tests if either repo or treeish is
NULL and says that eithor of them has to have a valid value. But there
is no code to handle the treeish == NULL case.
So, do something meaningful in that case: use HEAD instead.
The correct behaviour when a remote has no refspecs (e.g. a URL from the
command-line) is to download the remote's HEAD. Let's do that.
This fixes#1261.
Sometimes the static initializer for git_diff_options cannot be
used and since setting them to all zeroes doesn't actually work
quite right, this adds a new helper for that situation.
This also adds an explicit new value to the submodule settings
options to be used when those enums need static initialization.
This changes `git_index_read` to have two modes - a hard index
reload that always resets the index to match the on-disk data
(which was the old behavior) and a soft index reload that uses
the timestamp / file size information and only replaces the index
data if the file on disk has been modified.
This then updates the git_status code to do a soft reload unless
the new GIT_STATUS_OPT_NO_REFRESH flag is passed in.
This also changes the behavior of the git_diff functions that use
the index so that when an index is not explicitly passed in (i.e.
when the functions call git_repository_index for you), they will
also do a soft reload for you.
This intentionally breaks the file signature of git_index_read
because there has been some confusion about the behavior previously
and it seems like all existing uses of the API should probably be
examined to select the desired behavior.
At some moment git_config_delete_entry lost the ability to delete one entry of
a multivar configuration. The moment you had more than one fetch or push
ref spec for a remote you will not be able to save that remote anymore. The
changes in network::remote::remotes::save show that problem.
I needed to create a new git_config_delete_multivar because I was not able to
remove one or several entries of a multivar config with the current API.
Several tries modifying how git_config_set_multivar(..., NULL) behaved were
not successful.
git_config_delete_multivar is very similar to git_config_set_multivar, and
delegates into config_delete_multivar of config_file. This function search
for the cvar_t that will be deleted, storing them in a temporal array, and
rebuilding the linked list. After calling config_write to delete the entries,
the cvar_t stored in the temporal array are freed.
There is a little fix in config_write, it avoids an infinite loop when using
a regular expression (case for the multivars). This error was found by the
test network::remote::remotes::tagopt.
It was there to keep it apart from the one which read in from a file on
disk. This other indexer does not exist anymore, so there is no need for
anything other than git_indexer to refer to it.
While here, rename _add() function to _append() and _finalize() to
_commit(). The former change is cosmetic, while the latter avoids
talking about "finalizing", which OO languages use to mean something
completely different.
The user is unable to derive the number of deltas in the pack, as that
would require them to capture the stats exactly in the moment between
download and final processing, which is abstracted away in the fetch.
Capture these numbers for the user and expose them in the progress
struct. The clone and fetch examples now also present this information
to the user.
The names from libssh2 are somewhat obtuse for us. We can simplify the
usual key/passphrase credential's name, as well as make clearer what the
custom signature function is.
