Win32 DLLs have four fields for the version number (major, minor,
teeny, patch). If a consumer wants to build a custom DLL, it may
be useful to set the patchlevel version number in the DLL.
This value only affects the DLL version number, it does not affect
the resultant "version number", which remains major.minor.teeny.
Since the SOVERSION doesn't need to follow the library's version and
simply needs to be monotonically increasing whenever we release
something that breaks the ABI, we can set some number and allow multiple
versions of the library to be installed side-by-side.
We start here with the minor version as that's what we release for now,
and it allows to backport this change to earlier versions.
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
Minor point release! We got a lot of rather large features that we
wanted to get settled in:
- New (threadsafe) cache for objects
- Iterator for Status
- New Merge APIs
- SSH support on *NIX
- Function context on diff
- Namespaces support
- Index add/update/remove with wildcard support
- Iterator for References
- Fetch and push refspecs for Remotes
- Rename support in Status
- New 'sys/` namespace for external headers with low-level APIs
As always, this comes with hundreds of bug fixes and performance
improvements. We're faster and better than ever. And we haven't broken
many APIs this time!
Build stuff.
This is the last minor release before 1.0preview1.
Highlights of this release include:
- Branch API
- Checkout head, index and tree
- Finished clone support
- Abstracted reference API to use custom backends
- Full diff support
- New (faster) packbuilder
- Push support
- New Remotes API
- Revparse support (single and range commits)
- Stash support
- Submodules support
As always, the full changelog is available at:
http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/#p/changelog
Yeah, it's a huge release. Releasing stuff sucks.
Expect 1.0 and API freeze in less than a month.
Your faithful maintainer,
vmg
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Welcome to yet another libgit2 release, this one being the
biggest we've shipped so far. Highlights on this release
include diff, branches, notes and submodules support. The new
diff API is shiny and powerful. Check it out.
Apologies, one more time, to all the early adopters for the
breaking API changes. We've been iterating on the error
handling for the library until we reached its current state,
which we believe it's significantly more usable both for normal
users and for developers of bindings to other languages.
Also, we've renamed a few legacy calls to ensure that the whole
external API uses a consistent naming scheme.
As always, check the API docs for the full list of new API calls
and backwards-incompatible changes.
http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/
Changelog of new features follows:
Attributes:
- Added function macros to check attribute values instead of having
to manually compare them
- Added support for choosing the attribute loading order (workdir files
vs index) and to skip the systems' default `.gitattributes`
- Fixed issues when fetching attribute data on bare repositories
Blob:
- Added support for creating blobs from any file on disk (not
restricted to the repository's working directory)
- Aded support for smudge filters when writing blobs to the ODB
- So far only CRLF normalization is available
Branches:
- Added a high-level branch API:
- git_branch_create
- git_branch_delete
- git_branch_list
- git_branch_move
Commit:
- Commit messages are now filtered to match Git rules (stripping
comments and adding proper whitespacing rules)
Config:
- Added support for setting and getting multivars
- Added `git_config_get_mapped` to map the value of a config
variable based on its defaults
Diff:
- Added full diff API:
- tree to tree
- index to tree
- workdir to index
- workdir to tree
- blob to blob
- Added helper functions to print the diffs as valid patchfiles
Error handling:
- New design for the error handling API, taking into consideration
the requirements of dynamic languages
Indexer:
- Added streaming packfile indexer
Merge:
- Added support for finding the merge base between two commits
Notes:
- Full git-notes support:
- git_note_read
- git_note_message/git_note_oid
- git_note_create
- git_note_remove
- git_note_free
- git_note_foreach
References:
- Added `git_reference_name_to_oid` helper to resolve
a reference to its final OID
- Added `git_reference_cmp` to compare two references with
a stable order
Remotes:
- Added support for writing and saving remotes
- `git_remote_add`
- `git_remote_save`
- Setters for all the attributes of a remote
- Switched remote download to the new streaming packfile indexer
- Fixed fetch on HTTP and Git under Windows
- Added `git_remote_supported_url` helper to check if a protocol
can be accessed by the library
- Added `git_remote_list`
Repository:
- Made `git_repository_open` smarter when finding the `.git` folder.
- Added `git_repository_open_ext` with extra options when
opening a repository
Revwalk:
- Added support for pushing/hiding several references through a glob
- Added helper to push/hide the current HEAD to the walker
- Added helper to push/hide a single reference to the walker
Status:
- Greatly improved Status implementation using the new `diff` code
as a backend
Submodules:
- Added a partial submodules API to get information about a
submodule and list all the submodules in a repository
- git_submodule_foreach
- git_submodule_lookup
Tag:
- Added `git_tag_peel` helper to peel a tag to its pointed object
- Tag messages are now filtered to match Git rules (stripping comments
and adding proper whitespacing rules)
Tree:
- Killed the old `git_tree_diff` API, which is replaced by the
new diff code.
Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
This lovely and much delayed release of libgit2 ships from the cold city
of Brussels, which is currently hosting FOSDEM 2012.
There's been plenty of changes since the latest stable release, here's a
full summary:
- Git Attributes support (see git2/attr.h)
There is now support to efficiently parse and retrieve information
from `.gitattribute` files in a repository. Note that this
information is not yet used e.g. when checking out files.
- .gitignore support
Likewise, all the operations that are affected by `.gitignore` files
now take into account the global, user and local ignores when
skipping the relevant files.
- Cleanup of the object ownership semantics
The ownership semantics for all repository subparts (index, odb,
config files, etc) has been redesigned. All these objects are now
reference counted, and can be hot-swapped in the middle of
execution, allowing for instance to add a working directory and an
index to a repository that was previously opened as bare, or to
change the source of the ODB objects after initialization.
Consequently, the repository API has been simplified to remove all
the `_openX` calls that allowed setting these subparts *before*
initialization.
- git_index_read_tree()
Git trees can now be read into the index.
- More reflog functionality
The reference log has been optimized, and new API calls to rename
and delete the logs for a reference have been added.
- Rewrite of the References code with explicit ownership semantics
The references code has been mostly rewritten to take into account
the cases where another Git application was modifying a repository's
references while the Library was running.
References are now explicitly loaded and free'd by the user, and
they may be reloaded in the middle of execution if the user suspects
that their values may have changed on disk. Despite the new
ownership semantics, the references API stays the same.
- Simplified the Remotes API
Some of the more complex Remote calls have been refactored into
higher level ones, to facilitate the usual `fetch` workflow of a
repository.
- Greatly improved thread-safety
The library no longer has race conditions when loading objects from
the same ODB and different threads at the same time. There's now
full TLS support, even for error codes. When the library is built
with `THREADSAFE=1`, the threading support must be globally
initialized before it can be used (see `git_threads_init()`)
- Tree walking API
A new API can recursively traverse trees and subtrees issuing callbacks for
every single entry.
- Tree diff API
There is basic support for diff'ing an index against two trees.
- Improved windows support
The Library is now codepage aware under Windows32: new API calls
allow the user to set the default codepage for the OS in order to
avoid strange Unicode errors.
