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
Copy the pointers into temporary vectors instead of assigning them tot
he same array so we don't mess up with someone else's memory by
accident (e.g. by sorting).
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.
