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This is release v1.2.0, “Absacker”. This release includes many new features: in particular, support for commit graphs, multi-pack indexes, and core.longpaths
support.
This is meant to be the final minor release in the v1 lineage. v2.0 will be the next major release and will remove deprecated APIs and may include breaking changes.
git_treebuilder_write_with_buffer
by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5815 is_valid_name
functions; replace with name_is_valid
functions by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5659 create_commit_cb
, deprecate signing_cb
by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6016 git_commit_graph_needs_refresh()
by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5764 core.longpaths
on Windows by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5857 git_commit_list_generation_cmp
by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5766 git_graph_reachable_from_any()
by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5767 create_commit_cb
, deprecate signing_cb
by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6016 git___load
when building with -DTHREADSAFE=OFF
by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5664 ${MBEDTLS_INCLUDE_DIR}
when compiling crypt_mbedtls.c
by @staticfloat in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5685 -DTHREADSAFE=OFF
build by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5690 git_cert_hostkey
by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5704 __builtin_mul_overflow
with the clang+32-bit combo by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5742 GIT_BLOB_FILTER_ATTRIBUTES_FROM_HEAD
by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5760 p_pwrite
/p_pread
consistently throughout the codebase by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5769 git_midx_needs_refresh()
by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5768 FIND_PACKAGE(PythonInterp)
prefer python3
by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5913 malloc(0)
cases) by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5951 git_index_find
by @arxanas in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5910 ENABLE_WERROR=ON
build in Groovy Gorilla (gcc 10.2) by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5715 Full Changelog: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/compare/v1.1.0…v1.2.0
This is release v1.1, “Fernweh”.
Our bundled PCRE dependency has been updated to 8.44.
The refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
file will be created at clone time to
point to the origin’s default branch.
libgit2 now uses the __atomic_
intrinsics instead of __sync_
intrinsics on supported gcc and clang versions.
The init.defaultBranch
setting is now respected and master
is
no longer the hardcoded as the default branch name.
Patch files that do not contain an index
line can now be parsed.
Configuration files with multi-line values can now contain quotes split across multiple lines.
Windows clients now attempt to use TLS1.3 when available.
Servers that request an upgrade to a newer HTTP version are silently ignored instead of erroneously failing.
Users can pass NULL
to the options argument to
git_describe_commit
.
Clones and fetches of very large packfiles now succeeds on 32-bit platforms.
Custom reference database backends can now handle the repository’s
HEAD
correctly.
Repositories with a large number of packfiles no longer exhaust the number of file descriptors.
The test framework now supports TAP output when the -t
flag is
specified.
The test framework can now specify an exact match to a test
function using a trailing $
.
All checkout types support GIT_CHECKOUT_DISABLE_PATHSPEC_MATCH
.
git_blame
now can ignore whitespace changes using the option
GIT_BLAME_IGNORE_WHITESPACE
.
Several new examples have been created, including an examples for commit, add and push.
Mode changes during rename are now supported in patch application.
git_checkout_head
now correctly removes untracked files in a
subdirectory when the FORCE | REMOVE_UNTRACKED
options are specified.
This is a bugfix release with the following changes:
Calculating information about renamed files during merges is more efficient because dissimilarity about files is now being cached and no longer needs to be recomputed.
The git_worktree_prune_init_options
has been correctly restored for
backward compatibility. In v1.0 it was incorrectly deprecated with a
typo.
The optional ntlmclient dependency now supports NetBSD.
A bug where attempting to stash on a bare repository may have failed has been fixed.
Configuration files that are unreadable due to permissions are now silently ignored, and treated as if they do not exist. This matches git’s behavior; previously this case would have been an error.
v4 index files are now correctly written; previously we would read them correctly but would not write the prefix-compression accurately, causing corruption.
A bug where the smart HTTP transport could not read large data packets has been fixed. Previously, fetching from servers like Gerrit, that sent large data packets, would error.
This is release v1.0 “Luftschloss”, which is the first stabe release of libgit2. The API will stay compatible across all releases of the same major version. This release includes bugfixes only and supersedes v0.99, which will stop being maintained. Both v0.27 and v0.28 stay supported in accordance with our release policy.
CMake was converted to make use of the GNUInstallDirs module for both our
pkgconfig and install targets in favor of our custom build options
BIN_INSTALL_DIR
, LIB_INSTALL_DIR
and INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR
. Instead, you
can now use CMakes standard variables CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR
,
CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR
and CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR
.
Some CMake build options accepted either a specific value or a boolean value to disable the option altogether or use automatic detection. We only accepted “ON” or “OFF”, but none of the other values CMake recognizes as boolean. This was aligned with CMake’s understanding of booleans.
The installed pkgconfig file contained incorrect values for both libdir
and
includedir
variables.
If using pcre2 for regular expressions, then we incorrectly added “pcre2” instead of “pcre2-8” to our pkgconfig dependencies, which was corrected.
Fixed building the bundled ntlmclient dependency on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SunOS.
When writing symlinks on Windows, we incorrectly handled relative symlink targets, which was corrected.
When using the HTTP protocol via macOS’ SecureTransport implementation, reads could stall at the end of the session and only continue after a timeout of 60 seconds was reached.
The filesystem-based reference callback didn’t corectly initialize the backend version.
A segmentation fault was fixed when calling git_blame_buffer()
for files
that were modified and added to the index.
A backwards-incompatible change was introduced when we moved some structures from “git2/credentials.h” into “git2/sys/credentials.h”. This was fixed in the case where you do not use hard deprecation.
Improved error handling in various places.
This is v0.99 “Torschlusspanik”. This will be the last minor release before libgit2 v1.0. We expect to only respond to bugs in this release, to stabilize it for next major release.
It contains significant refactorings, but is expected to be API-compatible with v0.28.0.
When fetching from an anonymous remote using a URL with authentication
information provided in the URL (eg https://foo:bar@example.com/repo
),
we would erroneously include the literal URL in the FETCH_HEAD file.
We now remove that to match git’s behavior.
Some credential structures, enums and values have been renamed:
git_cred
is now git_credential
. git_credtype_t
is now
git_credential_t
. Functions and types beginning with
git_cred_
now begin with git_credential
, and constants beginning
with GIT_CREDTYPE
now begin with GIT_CREDENTIAL
. The former names
are deprecated.
Several function signatures have been changed to return an int
to
indicate error conditions. We encourage you to check them for errors
in the standard way.
git_attr_cache_flush
git_error_set_str
git_index_name_clear
git_index_reuc_clear
git_libgit2_version
git_mempack_reset
git_oid_cpy
git_oid_fmt
git_oid_fromraw
git_oid_nfmt
git_oid_pathfmt
git_remote_stop
git_remote_disconnect
git_repository__cleanup
git_repository_set_config
git_repository_set_index
git_repository_set_odb
git_repository_set_refdb
git_revwalk_reset
git_revwalk_simplify_first_parent
git_revwalk_sorting
git_treebuilder_clear
git_treebuilder_filter
The NTLM and Negotiate authentication mechanisms are now supported when talking to git implementations hosted on Apache or nginx servers.
The HEAD
symbolic reference can no longer be deleted.
git_merge_driver_source_repo
no longer returns a const git_repository *
,
it now returns a non-const
git_repository *
.
Relative symbolic links are now supported on Windows when core.symlinks
is enabled.
Servers that provide query parameters with a redirect are now supported.
git_submodule_sync
will now resolve relative URLs.
When creating git endpoint URLs, double-slashes are no longer used when the given git URL has a trailing slash.
On Windows, a DllMain
function is no longer included and thread-local
storage has moved to fiber-local storage in order to prevent race
conditions during shutdown.
The tracing mechanism (GIT_TRACE
) is now enabled by default and does
not need to be explicitly enabled in CMake.
The size of Git objects is now represented by git_object_size_t
instead of off_t
.
Binary patches without data can now be parsed.
A configuration snapshot can now be created from another configuration snapshot, not just a “true” configuration object.
The git_commit_with_signature
API will now ensure that referenced
objects exist in the object database.
Stash messages containing newlines will now be replaced with spaces; they will no longer be (erroneously) written to the repository.
git_commit_create_with_signature
now verifies the commit information
to ensure that it points to a valid tree and valid parents.
git_apply
has an option GIT_APPLY_CHECK
that will only do a dry-run.
The index and working directory will remain unmodified, and application
will report if it would have worked.
Patches produced by Mercurial (those that lack some git extended headers) can now be parsed and applied.
Reference locks are obeyed correctly on POSIX platforms, instead of being removed.
Patches with empty new files can now be read and applied.
git_apply_to_tree
can now correctly apply patches that add new files.
The program data configuration on Windows (C:\ProgramData\Git\config
)
must be owned by an administrator, a system account or the current user
to be read.
git_blob_filtered_content
is now deprecated in favor of git_blob_filter
.
Configuration files can now be included conditionally using the
onbranch
conditional.
Checkout can now properly create and remove symbolic links to directories on Windows.
Stash no longer recomputes trees when committing a worktree, for improved performance.
Repository templates can now include a HEAD
file to default the
initial default branch.
Some configuration structures, enums and values have been renamed:
git_cvar_map
is now git_configmap
, git_cvar_t
is now
git_configmap_t
, GIT_CVAR_FALSE
is now GIT_CONFIGMAP_FALSE
,
GIT_CVAR_TRUE
is now GIT_CONFIGMAP_TRUE
, GIT_CVAR_INT32
is now
GIT_CONFIGMAP_INT32
, and GIT_CVAR_STRING
is now GIT_CONFIGMAP_STRING
.
The former names are deprecated.
Repositories can now be created at the root of a Windows drive.
Configuration lookups are now more efficiently cached.
git_commit_create_with_signature
now supports a NULL
signature,
which will create a commit without adding a signature.
When a repository lacks an info
“common directory”, we will no
longer erroneously return GIT_ENOTFOUND
for all attribute lookups.
Several attribute macros have been renamed: GIT_ATTR_TRUE
is now
GIT_ATTR_IS_TRUE
, GIT_ATTR_FALSE
is now GIT_ATTR_IS_FALSE
,
GIT_ATTR_UNSPECIFIED
is now GIT_ATTR_IS_UNSPECIFIED
. The
attribute enum git_attr_t
is now git_attr_value_t
and its
values have been renamed: GIT_ATTR_UNSPECIFIED_T
is now
GIT_ATTR_VALUE_UNSPECIFIED
, GIT_ATTR_TRUE_T
is now
GIT_ATTR_VALUE_TRUE
, GIT_ATTR_FALSE_T
is now GIT_ATTR_VALUE_FALSE
,
and GIT_ATTR_VALUE_T
is now GIT_ATTR_VALUE_STRING
. The
former names are deprecated.
git_object__size
is now git_object_size
. The former name is
deprecated.
git_tag_create_frombuffer
is now git_tag_create_from_buffer
. The
former name is deprecated.
Several blob creation functions have been renamed:
git_blob_create_frombuffer
is now named git_blob_create_from_buffer
,
git_blob_create_fromdisk
is now named git_blob_create_from_disk
,
git_blob_create_fromworkdir
is now named git_blob_create_from_workdir
,
git_blob_create_fromstream
is now named git_blob_create_from_stream
,
and git_blob_create_fromstream_commit
is now named
git_blob_create_from_stream_commit
. The former names are deprecated.
The function git_oid_iszero
is now named git_oid_is_zero
. The
former name is deprecated.
Pattern matching is now done using wildmatch
instead of fnmatch
for compatibility with git.
The option initialization functions suffixed by init_options
are now
suffixed with options_init
. (For example, git_checkout_init_options
is now git_checkout_options_init
.) The former names are deprecated.
NTLM2 authentication is now supported on non-Windows platforms.
The git_cred_sign_callback
callback is now named git_cred_sign_cb
.
The git_cred_ssh_interactive_callback
callback is now named
git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb
.
Ignore files now:
Attribute files now:
\
as absolute only on Windows. The C locale is now correctly used when parsing regular expressions.
The system PCRE2 or PCRE regular expression libraries are now used
when regcomp_l
is not available on the system. If none of these
are available on the system, an included version of PCRE is used.
Wildcards in reference specifications are now supported beyond simply
a bare wildcard (*
) for compatibility with git.
When git_ignore_path_is_ignored
is provided a path with a trailing
slash (eg, dir/
), it will now treat it as a directory for the
purposes of ignore matching.
Patches that add or remove a file with a space in the path can now be correctly parsed.
The git_remote_completion_type
type is now git_remote_completion_t
.
The former name is deprecated.
The git_odb_backend_malloc
is now git_odb_backend_data_alloc
. The
former name is deprecated.
The git_transfer_progress_cb
callback is now git_indexer_progress_cb
and the git_transfer_progress
structure is now git_indexer_progress
.
The former names are deprecated.
The example projects are now contained in a single lg2
executable
for ease of use.
libgit2 now correctly handles more URLs, such as
http://example.com:/repo.git
(colon but no port),
http://example.com
(no path),
and http://example.com:8080/
(path is /, nonstandard port).
A carefully constructed commit object with a very large number of parents may lead to potential out-of-bounds writes or potential denial of service.
The ProgramData configuration file is always read for compatibility with Git for Windows and Portable Git installations. The ProgramData location is not necessarily writable only by administrators, so we now ensure that the configuration file is owned by the administrator or the current user.
The SSH host key now supports SHA-256 when GIT_CERT_SSH_SHA256
is set.
The diff format option GIT_DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH_ID
can now be used to
emit an output like git patch-id
.
The git_apply_options_init
function will initialize a
git_apply_options
structure.
The remote callbacks structure adds a git_url_resolve_cb
callback
that is invoked when connecting to a server, so that applications
may edit or replace the URL before connection.
The information about the original HEAD
in a rebase operation is
available with git_rebase_orig_head_name
. Its ID is available with
git_rebase_orig_head_id
. The onto
reference name is available with
git_rebase_onto_name
and its ID is available with git_rebase_onto_id
.
ODB backends can now free backend data when an error occurs during its
backend data creation using git_odb_backend_data_free
.
Options may be specified to git_repository_foreach_head
to control
its behavior: GIT_REPOSITORY_FOREACH_HEAD_SKIP_REPO
will not skip
the main repository’s HEAD reference, while
GIT_REPOSITORY_FOREACH_HEAD_SKIP_WORKTREES
will now skip the
worktree HEAD references.
The GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS
option can be specified to
git_libgit2_opts()
to avoid looking for .keep
files that correspond
to packfiles. This setting can improve performance when packfiles are
stored on high-latency filesystems like network filesystems.
Blobs can now be filtered with git_blob_filter
, which allows for
options to be set with git_blob_filter_options
, including
GIT_FILTER_NO_SYSTEM_ATTRIBUTES
to disable filtering with system-level
attributes in /etc/gitattributes
and GIT_ATTR_CHECK_INCLUDE_HEAD
to
enable filtering with .gitattributes
files in the HEAD revision.
The unused git_headlist_cb
function declaration was removed.
The unused git_time_monotonic
API is removed.
The erroneously exported inttypes.h
header was removed.
CVE-2019-1348: the fast-import stream command “feature export-marks=path” allows writing to arbitrary file paths. As libgit2 does not offer any interface for fast-import, it is not susceptible to this vulnerability.
CVE-2019-1349: by using NTFS 8.3 short names, backslashes or alternate filesystreams, it is possible to cause submodules to be written into pre-existing directories during a recursive clone using git. As libgit2 rejects cloning into non-empty directories by default, it is not susceptible to this vulnerability.
CVE-2019-1350: recursive clones may lead to arbitrary remote code executing due to improper quoting of command line arguments. As libgit2 uses libssh2, which does not require us to perform command line parsing, it is not susceptible to this vulnerability.
CVE-2019-1351: Windows provides the ability to substitute drive letters with arbitrary letters, including multi-byte Unicode letters. To fix any potential issues arising from interpreting such paths as relative paths, we have extended detection of DOS drive prefixes to accomodate for such cases.
CVE-2019-1352: by using NTFS-style alternative file streams for the “.git” directory, it is possible to overwrite parts of the repository. While this has been fixed in the past for Windows, the same vulnerability may also exist on other systems that write to NTFS filesystems. We now reject any paths starting with “.git:” on all systems.
CVE-2019-1353: by using NTFS-style 8.3 short names, it was possible to write to the “.git” directory and thus overwrite parts of the repository, leading to possible remote code execution. While this problem was already fixed in the past for Windows, other systems accessing NTFS filesystems are vulnerable to this issue too. We now enable NTFS protecions by default on all systems to fix this attack vector.
CVE-2019-1354: on Windows, backslashes are not a valid part of a filename but are instead interpreted as directory separators. As other platforms allowed to use such paths, it was possible to write such invalid entries into a Git repository and was thus an attack vector to write into the “.git” dierctory. We now reject any entries starting with “.git\” on all systems.
CVE-2019-1387: it is possible to let a submodule’s git directory point into a sibling’s submodule directory, which may result in overwriting parts of the Git repository and thus lead to arbitrary command execution. As libgit2 doesn’t provide any way to do submodule clones natively, it is not susceptible to this vulnerability. Users of libgit2 that have implemented recursive submodule clones manually are encouraged to review their implementation for this vulnerability.
The “private” implementation details of the git_cred
structure have been
moved to a dedicated git2/sys/cred.h
header, to clarify that the underlying
structures are only provided for custom transport implementers.
The breaking change is that the username
member of the underlying struct
is now hidden, and a new git_cred_get_username
function has been provided.
Some errors of class GIT_ERROR_NET
now have class GIT_ERROR_HTTP
.
Most authentication failures now have error code GIT_EAUTH
instead of GIT_ERROR
.
The CMake option to use a system http-parser library, instead of the
bundled dependency, has changed. This is due to a deficiency in
http-parser that we have fixed in our implementation. The bundled
library is now the default, but if you wish to force the use of the
system http-parser implementation despite incompatibilities, you can
specify -DUSE_HTTP_PARSER=system
to CMake.
The interactions between USE_HTTPS
and SHA1_BACKEND
have been
streamlined. The detection was moved to a new USE_SHA1
, modeled after
USE_HTTPS
, which takes the values “CollisionDetection/Backend/Generic”, to
better match how the “hashing backend” is selected, the default (ON) being
“CollisionDetection”. If you were using SHA1_BACKEND
previously, you’ll
need to check the value you’ve used, or switch to the autodetection.
The following individuals provided changes that were included in this release:
The library is now always built with cdecl calling conventions on Windows; the ability to build a stdcall library has been removed.
Reference log creation now honors core.logallrefupdates=always
.
Fix some issues with the error-reporting in the OpenSSL backend.
HTTP proxy support is now builtin; libcurl is no longer used to support proxies and is removed as a dependency.
Certificate and credential callbacks can now return GIT_PASSTHROUGH
to decline to act; libgit2 will behave as if there was no callback set
in the first place.
The line-ending filtering logic - when checking out files - has been updated to match newer git (>= git 2.9) for proper interoperability.
Symbolic links are now supported on Windows when core.symlinks
is set
to true
.
Submodules with names which attempt to perform path traversal now have their
configuration ignored. Such names were blindly appended to the
$GIT_DIR/modules
and a malicious name could lead to an attacker writing to
an arbitrary location. This matches git’s handling of CVE-2018-11235.
Object validation is now performed during tree creation in the
git_index_write_tree_to
API.
Configuration variable may now be specified on the same line as a section header; previously this was erroneously a parser error.
When an HTTP server supports both NTLM and Negotiate authentication mechanisms, we would previously fail to authenticate with any mechanism.
The GIT_OPT_SET_PACK_MAX_OBJECTS
option can now set the maximum
number of objects allowed in a packfile being downloaded; this can help
limit the maximum memory used when fetching from an untrusted remote.
Line numbers in diffs loaded from patch files were not being populated; they are now included in the results.
The repository’s index is reloaded from disk at the beginning of
git_merge
operations to ensure that it is up-to-date.
Mailmap handling APIs have been introduced, and the new commit APIs
git_commit_committer_with_mailmap
and git_commit_author_with_mailmap
will use the mailmap to resolve the committer and author information.
In addition, blame will use the mailmap given when the
GIT_BLAME_USE_MAILMAP
option.
Ignore handling for files in ignored folders would be ignored.
Worktrees can now be backed by bare repositories.
Trailing spaces are supported in .gitignore
files, these spaces were
previously (and erroneously) treated as part of the pattern.
The library can now be built with mbedTLS support for HTTPS.
The diff status character ‘T’ will now be presented by the
git_diff_status_char
API for diff entries that change type.
Revision walks previously would sometimes include commits that should have been ignored; this is corrected.
Revision walks are now more efficient when the output is unsorted; we now avoid walking all the way to the beginning of history unnecessarily.
Error-handling around index extension loading has been fixed. We were previously always misreporting a truncated index (#4858).
The index may now be iterated atomically using git_index_iterator
.
Remote objects can now be created with extended options using the
git_remote_create_with_opts
API.
Diff objects can now be applied as changes to the working directory,
index or both, emulating the git apply
command. Additionally,
git_apply_to_tree
can apply those changes to a tree object as a
fully in-memory operation.
You can now swap out memory allocators via the
GIT_OPT_SET_ALLOCATOR
option with git_libgit2_opts()
.
You can now ensure that functions do not discard unwritten changes to the
index via the GIT_OPT_ENABLE_UNSAVED_INDEX_SAFETY
option to
git_libgit2_opts()
. This will cause functions that implicitly re-read
the index (eg, git_checkout
) to fail if you have staged changes to the
index but you have not written the index to disk. (Unless the checkout
has the FORCE flag specified.)
At present, this defaults to off, but we intend to enable this more broadly in the future, as a warning or error. We encourage you to examine your code to ensure that you are not relying on the current behavior that implicitly removes staged changes.
Reference specifications can be parsed from an arbitrary string with
the git_refspec_parse
API.
You can now get the name and path of worktrees using the
git_worktree_name
and git_worktree_path
APIs, respectively.
The ref
field has been added to git_worktree_add_options
to enable
the creation of a worktree from a pre-existing branch.
It’s now possible to analyze merge relationships between any two
references, not just against HEAD
, using git_merge_analysis_for_ref
.
The git_buf_free
API is deprecated; it has been renamed to
git_buf_dispose
for consistency. The git_buf_free
API will be
retained for backward compatibility for the foreseeable future.
The git_otype
enumeration and its members are deprecated and have
been renamed for consistency. The GIT_OBJ_
enumeration values are
now prefixed with GIT_OBJECT_
. The old enumerations and macros
will be retained for backward compatibility for the foreseeable future.
Several index-related APIs have been renamed for consistency. The
GIT_IDXENTRY_
enumeration values and macros have been renamed to
be prefixed with GIT_INDEX_ENTRY_
. The GIT_INDEXCAP
enumeration
values are now prefixed with GIT_INDEX_CAPABILITY_
. The old
enumerations and macros will be retained for backward compatibility
for the foreseeable future.
The error functions and enumeration values have been renamed for
consistency. The giterr_
functions and values prefix have been
renamed to be prefixed with git_error_
; similarly, the GITERR_
constants have been renamed to be prefixed with GIT_ERROR_
.
The old enumerations and macros will be retained for backward
compatibility for the foreseeable future.
The default checkout strategy changed from DRY_RUN
to SAFE
(#4531).
Adding a symlink as .gitmodules into the index from the workdir or checking out such files is not allowed as this can make a Git implementation write outside of the repository and bypass the fsck checks for CVE-2018-11235.
Improved p_unlink
in posix_w32.c
to try and make a file writable
before sleeping in the retry loop to prevent unnecessary calls to sleep.
The CMake build infrastructure has been improved to speed up building time.
A new CMake option “-DUSE_HTTPS=<backend>” makes it possible to explicitly choose an HTTP backend.
A new CMake option “-DSHA1_BACKEND=<backend>” makes it possible to explicitly choose an SHA1 backend. The collision-detecting backend is now the default.
A new CMake option “-DUSE_BUNDLED_ZLIB” makes it possible to explicitly use the bundled zlib library.
A new CMake option “-DENABLE_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILDS” makes it possible to generate a reproducible static archive. This requires support from your toolchain.
The minimum required CMake version has been bumped to 2.8.11.
Writing to a configuration file now preserves the case of the key given by the caller for the case-insensitive portions of the key (existing sections are used even if they don’t match).
We now support conditional includes in configuration files.
Fix for handling re-reading of configuration files with includes.
Fix for reading patches which contain exact renames only.
Fix for reading patches with whitespace in the compared files’ paths.
We will now fill FETCH_HEAD
from all passed refspecs instead of overwriting
with the last one.
There is a new diff option, GIT_DIFF_INDENT_HEURISTIC
which activates a
heuristic which takes into account whitespace and indentation in order to
produce better diffs when dealing with ambiguous diff hunks.
Fix for pattern-based ignore rules where files ignored by a rule cannot be un-ignored by another rule.
Sockets opened by libgit2 are now being closed on exec(3) if the platform supports it.
Fix for peeling annotated tags from packed-refs files.
Fix reading huge loose objects from the object database.
Fix files not being treated as modified when only the file mode has changed.
We now explicitly reject adding submodules to the index via
git_index_add_frombuffer
.
Fix handling of GIT_DIFF_FIND_RENAMES_FROM_REWRITES
raising SIGABRT
when
one file has been deleted and another file has been rewritten.
Fix for WinHTTP not properly handling NTLM and Negotiate challenges.
When using SSH-based transports, we now repeatedly ask for the passphrase to decrypt the private key in case a wrong passphrase is being provided.
When generating conflict markers, they will now use the same line endings as the rest of the file.
The git_merge_file_options
structure now contains a new setting,
marker_size
. This allows users to set the size of markers that
delineate the sides of merged files in the output conflict file.
By default this is 7 (GIT_MERGE_CONFLICT_MARKER_SIZE
), which
produces output markers like <<<<<<<
and >>>>>>>
.
git_remote_create_detached()
creates a remote that is not associated
to any repository (and does not apply configuration like ‘insteadof’ rules).
This is mostly useful for e.g. emulating git ls-remote
behavior.
git_diff_patchid()
lets you generate patch IDs for diffs.
git_status_options
now has an additional field baseline
to allow creating
status lists against different trees.
New family of functions to allow creating notes for a specific notes commit instead of for a notes reference.
New family of functions to allow parsing message trailers. This API is still experimental and may change in future releases.
Signatures now distinguish between +0000 and -0000 UTC offsets.
The certificate check callback in the WinHTTP transport will now receive the
message_cb_payload
instead of the cred_acquire_payload
.
We are now reading symlinked directories under .git/refs.
We now refuse creating branches named “HEAD”.
We now refuse reading and writing all-zero object IDs into the object database.
We now read the effective user’s configuration file instead of the real user’s configuration in case libgit2 runs as part of a setuid binary.
The git_odb_open_rstream
function and its readstream
callback in the
git_odb_backend
interface have changed their signatures to allow providing
the object’s size and type to the caller.
Support for opening, creating and modifying worktrees.
We can now detect SHA1 collisions resulting from the SHAttered attack. These
checks can be enabled at build time via -DUSE_SHA1DC
.
Fix for missing implementation of git_merge_driver_source
getters.
Fix for installed pkg-config file being broken when the prefix contains spaces.
We now detect when the hashsum of on-disk objects does not match their expected hashsum.
We now support open-ended ranges (e.g. “master..”, “…master”) in our revision range parsing code.
We now correctly compute ignores with leading “/“ in subdirectories.
We now optionally call fsync
on loose objects, packfiles and their indexes,
loose references and packed reference files.
We can now build against OpenSSL v1.1 and against LibreSSL.
GIT_MERGE_OPTIONS_INIT
now includes a setting to perform rename detection.
This aligns this structure with the default by git_merge
and
git_merge_trees
when NULL
was provided for the options.
Improvements for reading index v4 files.
Perform additional retries for filesystem operations on Windows when files are temporarily locked by other processes.
New family of functions to handle worktrees:
git_worktree_list()
lets you look up worktrees for a repository. git_worktree_lookup()
lets you get a specific worktree. git_worktree_open_from_repository()
lets you get the associated worktree
of a repository.
a worktree. git_worktree_add
lets you create new worktrees. git_worktree_prune
lets you remove worktrees from disk. git_worktree_lock()
and git_worktree_unlock()
let you lock
respectively unlock a worktree. git_repository_open_from_worktree()
lets you open a repository via git_repository_head_for_worktree()
lets you get the current HEAD
for a
linked worktree. git_repository_head_detached_for_worktree()
lets you check whether a
linked worktree is in detached HEAD mode.
git_repository_item_path()
lets you retrieve paths for various repository
files.
git_repository_commondir()
lets you retrieve the common directory of a
repository.
git_branch_is_checked_out()
allows you to check whether a branch is checked
out in a repository or any of its worktrees.
git_repository_submodule_cache_all()
and
git_repository_submodule_cache_clear()
functions allow you to prime or clear
the submodule cache of a repository.
You can disable strict hash verifications via the
GIT_OPT_ENABLE_STRICT_HASH_VERIFICATION
option with git_libgit2_opts()
.
You can enable us calling fsync
for various files inside the “.git”
directory by setting the GIT_OPT_ENABLE_FSYNC_GITDIR
option with
git_libgit2_opts()
.
You can now enable “offset deltas” when creating packfiles and negotiating
packfiles with a remote server by setting GIT_OPT_ENABLE_OFS_DELTA
option
with GIT_libgit2_opts()
.
You can now set the default share mode on Windows for opening files using
GIT_OPT_SET_WINDOWS_SHAREMODE
option with git_libgit2_opts()
.
You can query the current share mode with GIT_OPT_GET_WINDOWS_SHAREMODE
.
git_transport_smart_proxy_options()' enables you to get the proxy options for smart transports. * The
GIT_FILTER_INITmacro and the
git_filter_initfunction are provided to initialize a
git_filterstructure. ### Breaking API changes *
clone_checkout_strategyhas been removed from
git_submodule_update_option. The checkout strategy used to clone will be the same strategy specified in
checkout_opts. v0.25 ------- ### Changes or improvements * Fix repository discovery with
git_repository_discoverand
git_repository_open_extto match git's handling of a ceiling directory at the current directory. git only checks ceiling directories when its search ascends to a parent directory. A ceiling directory matching the starting directory will not prevent git from finding a repository in the starting directory or a parent directory. * Do not fail when deleting remotes in the presence of broken global configs which contain branches. * Support for reading and writing git index v4 files * Improve the performance of the revwalk and bring us closer to git's code. * The reference db has improved support for concurrency and returns
GIT_ELOCKEDwhen an operation could not be performed due to locking. * Nanosecond resolution is now activated by default, following git's change to do this. * We now restrict the set of ciphers we let OpenSSL use by default. * Users can now register their own merge drivers for use with
.gitattributes. The library also gained built-in support for the union merge driver. * The default for creating references is now to validate that the object does exist. * Add
git_proxy_optionswhich is used by the different networking implementations to let the caller specify the proxy settings instead of relying on the environment variables. ### API additions * You can now get the user-agent used by libgit2 using the
GIT_OPT_GET_USER_AGENToption with
git_libgit2_opts(). It is the counterpart to
GIT_OPT_SET_USER_AGENT. * The
GIT_OPT_SET_SSL_CIPHERSoption for
git_libgit2_opts()lets you specify a custom list of ciphers to use for OpenSSL. *
git_commit_create_buffer()creates a commit and writes it into a user-provided buffer instead of writing it into the object db. Combine it with
git_commit_create_with_signature()in order to create a commit with a cryptographic signature. *
git_blob_create_fromstream()and
git_blob_create_fromstream_commit()allow you to create a blob by writing into a stream. Useful when you do not know the final size or want to copy the contents from another stream. * New flags for
git_repository_open_ext: *
GIT_REPOSITORY_OPEN_NO_DOTGIT- Do not check for a repository by appending
/.gitto the
start_path; only open the repository if
start_pathitself points to the git directory. *
GIT_REPOSITORY_OPEN_FROM_ENV- Find and open a git repository, respecting the environment variables used by the git command-line tools. If set,
git_repository_open_extwill ignore the other flags and the
ceiling_dirsargument, and will allow a NULL
pathto use
GIT_DIRor search from the current directory. The search for a repository will respect
$GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIESand
$GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM. The opened repository will respect
$GIT_INDEX_FILE,
$GIT_NAMESPACE,
$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, and
$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES. In the future, this flag will also cause
git_repository_open_extto respect
$GIT_WORK_TREEand
$GIT_COMMON_DIR; currently,
git_repository_open_extwith this flag will error out if either
$GIT_WORK_TREEor
$GIT_COMMON_DIRis set. *
git_diff_from_buffer()can create a
git_diffobject from the contents of a git-style patch file. *
git_index_version()and
git_index_set_version()to get and set the index version *
git_odb_expand_ids()lets you check for the existence of multiple objects at once. * The new
git_blob_dup(),
git_commit_dup(),
git_tag_dup()and
git_tree_dup()functions provide type-specific wrappers for
git_object_dup()to reduce noise and increase type safety for callers. *
git_reference_dup()lets you duplicate a reference to aid in ownership management and cleanup. *
git_signature_from_buffer()lets you create a signature from a string in the format that appear in objects. *
git_tree_create_updated()lets you create a tree based on another one together with a list of updates. For the covered update cases, it's more efficient than the
git_indexroute. *
git_apply_patch()applies hunks from a
git_patchto a buffer. *
git_diff_to_buf()lets you print an entire diff directory to a buffer, similar to how
git_patch_to_buf()works. *
git_proxy_init_options()is added to initialize a
git_proxy_optionsstructure at run-time. *
git_merge_driver_register(),
git_merge_driver_unregister()let you register and unregister a custom merge driver to be used when
.gitattributesspecifies it. *
git_merge_driver_lookup()can be used to look up a merge driver by name. *
git_merge_driver_source_repo(),
git_merge_driver_source_ancestor(),
git_merge_driver_source_ours(),
git_merge_driver_source_theirs(),
git_merge_driver_source_file_options()added as accessors to
git_merge_driver_source. ### API removals *
git_blob_create_fromchunks()has been removed in favour of
git_blob_create_fromstream(). ### Breaking API changes *
git_packbuilder_object_countand
git_packbuilder_writtennow return a
size_tinstead of a
uint32_tfor more thorough compatibility with the rest of the library. *
git_packbuiler_progressnow provides explicitly sized
uint32_tvalues instead of
unsigned int. *
git_diff_filenow includes an
id_abbrevfield that reflects the number of nibbles set in the
idfield. *
git_odb_backendnow has a
freshenfunction pointer. This optional function pointer is similar to the
existsfunction, but it will update a last-used marker. For filesystem-based object databases, this updates the timestamp of the file containing the object, to indicate "freshness". If this is
NULL, then it will not be called and the
existsfunction will be used instead. *
git_remote_connect()now accepts
git_proxy_optionsargument, and
git_fetch_optionsand
git_push_optionseach have a
proxy_optsfield. *
git_merge_optionsnow provides a
default_driverthat can be used to provide the name of a merge driver to be used to handle files changed during a merge. v0.24 ------- ### Changes or improvements * Custom merge drivers can now be registered, which allows callers to configure callbacks to honor
merge=driverconfiguration in
.gitattributes. * Custom filters can now be registered with wildcard attributes, for example
filter=. Consumers should examine the attributes parameter of the
check` function for details.
Symlinks are now followed when locking a file, which can be
necessary when multiple worktrees share a base repository.
You can now set your own user-agent to be sent for HTTP requests by
using the GIT_OPT_SET_USER_AGENT
with git_libgit2_opts()
.
You can set custom HTTP header fields to be sent along with requests
by passing them in the fetch and push options.
Tree objects are now assumed to be sorted. If a tree is not
correctly formed, it will give bad results. This is the git approach
and cuts a significant amount of time when reading the trees.
Filter registration is now protected against concurrent
registration.
Filenames which are not valid on Windows in an index no longer cause
to fail to parse it on that OS.
Rebases can now be performed purely in-memory, without touching the
repository’s workdir.
When adding objects to the index, or when creating new tree or commit
objects, the inputs are validated to ensure that the dependent objects
exist and are of the correct type. This object validation can be
disabled with the GIT_OPT_ENABLE_STRICT_OBJECT_CREATION option.
The WinHTTP transport’s handling of bad credentials now behaves like
the others, asking for credentials again.
### API additions
git_config_lock()
has been added, which allow for
transactional/atomic complex updates to the configuration, removing
the opportunity for concurrent operations and not committing any
changes until the unlock.
git_diff_options
added a new callback progress_cb
to report on the
progress of the diff as files are being compared. The documentation of
the existing callback notify_cb
was updated to reflect that it only
gets called when new deltas are added to the diff.
git_fetch_options
and git_push_options
have gained a custom_headers
field to set the extra HTTP header fields to send.
git_stream_register_tls()
lets you register a callback to be used
as the constructor for a TLS stream instead of the libgit2 built-in
one.
git_commit_header_field()
allows you to look up a specific header
field in a commit.
git_commit_extract_signature()
extracts the signature from a
commit and gives you both the signature and the signed data so you
can verify it.
### API removals
No APIs were removed in this version.
### Breaking API changes
The git_merge_tree_flag_t
is now git_merge_flag_t
. Subsequently,
its members are no longer prefixed with GIT_MERGE_TREE_FLAG
but are
now prefixed with GIT_MERGE_FLAG
, and the tree_flags
field of the
git_merge_options
structure is now named flags
.
The git_merge_file_flags_t
enum is now git_merge_file_flag_t
for
consistency with other enum type names.
git_cert
descendent types now have a proper parent
member
It is the responsibility of the refdb backend to decide what to do
with the reflog on ref deletion. The file-based backend must delete
it, a database-backed one may wish to archive it.
git_config_backend
has gained two entries. lock
and unlock
with which to implement the transactional/atomic semantics for the
configuration backend.
git_index_add
and git_index_conflict_add()
will now use the case
as provided by the caller on case insensitive systems. Previous
versions would keep the case as it existed in the index. This does
not affect the higher-level git_index_add_bypath
or
git_index_add_frombuffer
functions.
The notify_payload
field of git_diff_options
was renamed to payload
to reflect that it’s also the payload for the new progress callback.
The git_config_level_t
enum has gained a higher-priority value
GIT_CONFIG_LEVEL_PROGRAMDATA
which represent a rough Windows equivalent
to the system level configuration.
git_rebase_options
now has a merge_options
field.
The index no longer performs locking itself. This is not something
users of the library should have been relying on as it’s not part of
the concurrency guarantees.
git_remote_connect()
now takes a custom_headers
argument to set
the extra HTTP header fields to send.
v0.23
——
### Changes or improvements
Patience and minimal diff drivers can now be used for merges.
Merges can now ignore whitespace changes.
Updated binary identification in CRLF filtering to avoid false positives in
UTF-8 files.
Rename and copy detection is enabled for small files.
Checkout can now handle an initial checkout of a repository, making
GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE_CREATE
unnecessary for users of clone.
The signature parameter in the ref-modifying functions has been
removed. Use git_repository_set_ident()
and
git_repository_ident()
to override the signature to be used.
The local transport now auto-scales the number of threads to use
when creating the packfile instead of sticking to one.
Reference renaming now uses the right id for the old value.
The annotated version of branch creation, HEAD detaching and reset
allow for specifying the expression from the user to be put into the
reflog.
git_rebase_commit
now returns GIT_EUNMERGED
when you attempt to
commit with unstaged changes.
On Mac OS X, we now use SecureTransport to provide the cryptographic
support for HTTPS connections insead of OpenSSL.
Checkout can now accept an index for the baseline computations via the
baseline_index
member.
The configuration for fetching is no longer stored inside the
git_remote
struct but has been moved to a git_fetch_options
. The
remote functions now take these options or the callbacks instead of
setting them beforehand.
git_submodule
instances are no longer cached or shared across
lookup. Each submodule represents the configuration at the time of
loading.
The index now uses diffs for add_all()
and update_all()
which
gives it a speed boost and closer semantics to git.
The ssh transport now reports the stderr output from the server as
the error message, which allows you to get the “repository not
found” messages.
git_index_conflict_add()
will remove staged entries that exist for
conflicted paths.
The flags for a git_diff_file
will now have the GIT_DIFF_FLAG_EXISTS
bit set when a file exists on that side of the diff. This is useful
for understanding whether a side of the diff exists in the presence of
a conflict.
The constructor for a write-stream into the odb now takes
git_off_t
instead of size_t
for the size of the blob, which
allows putting large files into the odb on 32-bit systems.
The remote’s push and pull URLs now honor the url.$URL.insteadOf
configuration. This allows modifying URL prefixes to a custom
value via gitconfig.
git_diff_foreach
, git_diff_blobs
, git_diff_blob_to_buffer
,
and git_diff_buffers
now accept a new binary callback of type
git_diff_binary_cb
that includes the binary diff information.
The race condition mitigations described in racy-git.txt
have been
implemented.
If libcurl is installed, we will use it to connect to HTTP(S)
servers.
### API additions
The git_merge_options
gained a file_flags
member.
Parsing and retrieving a configuration value as a path is exposed
via git_config_parse_path()
and git_config_get_path()
respectively.
git_repository_set_ident()
and git_repository_ident()
serve to
set and query which identity will be used when writing to the
reflog.
git_config_entry_free()
frees a config entry.
git_config_get_string_buf()
provides a way to safely retrieve a
string from a non-snapshot configuration.
git_annotated_commit_from_revspec()
allows to get an annotated
commit from an extended sha synatx string.
git_repository_set_head_detached_from_annotated()
,
git_branch_create_from_annotated()
and
git_reset_from_annotated()
allow for the caller to provide an
annotated commit through which they can control what expression is
put into the reflog as the source/target.
git_index_add_frombuffer()
can now create a blob from memory
buffer and add it to the index which is attached to a repository.
The structure git_fetch_options
has been added to determine the
runtime configuration for fetching, such as callbacks, pruning and
autotag behaviour. It has the runtime initializer
git_fetch_init_options()
.
The enum git_fetch_prune_t
has been added, letting you specify the
pruning behaviour for a fetch.
A push operation will notify the caller of what updates it indends
to perform on the remote, which provides similar information to
git’s pre-push hook.
git_stash_apply()
can now apply a stashed state from the stash list,
placing the data into the working directory and index.
git_stash_pop()
will apply a stashed state (like git_stash_apply()
)
but will remove the stashed state after a successful application.
A new error code GIT_EEOF
indicates an early EOF from the
server. This typically indicates an error with the URL or
configuration of the server, and tools can use this to show messages
about failing to communicate with the server.
A new error code GIT_EINVALID
indicates that an argument to a
function is invalid, or an invalid operation was requested.
git_diff_index_to_workdir()
and git_diff_tree_to_index()
will now
produce deltas of type GIT_DELTA_CONFLICTED
to indicate that the index
side of the delta is a conflict.
The git_status
family of functions will now produce status of type
GIT_STATUS_CONFLICTED
to indicate that a conflict exists for that file
in the index.
git_index_entry_is_conflict()
is a utility function to determine if
a given index entry has a non-zero stage entry, indicating that it is
one side of a conflict.
It is now possible to pass a keypair via a buffer instead of a
path. For this, GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_MEMORY
and
git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new()
have been added.
git_filter_list_contains
will indicate whether a particular
filter will be run in the given filter list.
git_commit_header_field()
has been added, which allows retrieving
the contents of an arbitrary header field.
git_submodule_set_branch()
allows to set the configured branch for
a submodule.
### API removals
git_remote_save()
and git_remote_clear_refspecs()
have been
removed. Remote’s configuration is changed via the configuration
directly or through a convenience function which performs changes to
the configuration directly.
git_remote_set_callbacks()
, git_remote_get_callbacks()
and
git_remote_set_transport()
have been removed and the remote no
longer stores this configuration.
git_remote_set_fetch_refpecs()
and
git_remote_set_push_refspecs()
have been removed. There is no
longer a way to set the base refspecs at run-time.
git_submodule_save()
has been removed. The submodules are no
longer configured via the objects.
git_submodule_reload_all()
has been removed as we no longer cache
submodules.
### Breaking API changes
git_smart_subtransport_cb
now has a param
parameter.
The git_merge_options
structure member flags
has been renamed
to tree_flags
.
The git_merge_file_options
structure member flags
is now
an unsigned int. It was previously a git_merge_file_flags_t
.
GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE_CREATE
has been removed. Most users will generally
be able to switch to GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE
, but if you require missing
file handling during checkout, you may now use GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE | GIT_CHECKOUT_RECREATE_MISSING
.
The git_clone_options
and git_submodule_update_options
structures no longer have a signature
field.
The following functions have removed the signature and/or log message
parameters in favour of git-emulating ones.
git_branch_create()
, git_branch_move()
git_rebase_init()
, git_rebase_abort()
git_reference_symbolic_create_matching()
,
git_reference_symbolic_create()
, git_reference_create()
,
git_reference_create_matching()
,
git_reference_symbolic_set_target()
,
git_reference_set_target()
, git_reference_rename()
git_remote_update_tips()
, git_remote_fetch()
, git_remote_push()
git_repository_set_head()
,
git_repository_set_head_detached()
,
git_repository_detach_head()
git_reset()
git_config_get_entry()
now gives back a ref-counted
git_config_entry
. You must free it when you no longer need it.
git_config_get_string()
will return an error if used on a
non-snapshot configuration, as there can be no guarantee that the
returned pointer is valid.
git_note_default_ref()
now uses a git_buf
to return the string,
as the string is otherwise not guaranteed to stay allocated.
git_rebase_operation_current()
will return GIT_REBASE_NO_OPERATION
if it is called immediately after creating a rebase session but before
you have applied the first patch.
git_rebase_options
now contains a git_checkout_options
struct
that will be used for functions that modify the working directory,
namely git_rebase_init
, git_rebase_next
and
git_rebase_abort
. As a result, git_rebase_open
now also takes
a git_rebase_options
and only the git_rebase_init
and
git_rebase_open
functions take a git_rebase_options
, where they
will persist the options to subsequent git_rebase
calls.
The git_clone_options
struct now has fetch options in a
fetch_opts
field instead of remote callbacks in
remote_callbacks
.
The remote callbacks has gained a new member push_negotiation
which gets called before sending the update commands to the server.
The following functions no longer act on a remote instance but
change the repository’s configuration. Their signatures have changed
accordingly:
git_remote_set_url()
, git_remote_seturl()
git_remote_add_fetch()
, git_remote_add_push()
and
git_remote_set_autotag()
git_remote_connect()
and git_remote_prune()
now take a pointer
to the callbacks.
git_remote_fetch()
and git_remote_download()
now take a pointer
to fetch options which determine the runtime configuration.
The git_remote_autotag_option_t
values have been changed. It has
gained a _UNSPECIFIED
default value to specify no override for the
configured setting.
git_remote_update_tips()
now takes a pointer to the callbacks as
well as a boolean whether to write FETCH_HEAD
and the autotag
setting.
git_remote_create_anonymous()
no longer takes a fetch refspec as
url-only remotes cannot have configured refspecs.
The git_submodule_update_options
struct now has fetch options in
the fetch_opts
field instead of callbacks in the
remote_callbacks
field.
The following functions no longer act on a submodule instance but
change the repository’s configuration. Their signatures have changed
accordingly:
git_submodule_set_url()
, git_submodule_set_ignore()
,
git_submodule_set_update()
,
git_submodule_set_fetch_recurse_submodules()
.
git_submodule_status()
no longer takes a submodule instance but a
repsitory, a submodule name and an ignore setting.
The push
function in the git_transport
interface now takes a
pointer to the remote callbacks.
The git_index_entry
struct’s fields’ types have been changed to
more accurately reflect what is in fact stored in the
index. Specifically, time and file size are 32 bits intead of 64, as
these values are truncated.
GIT_EMERGECONFLICT
is now GIT_ECONFLICT
, which more accurately
describes the nature of the error.
It is no longer allowed to call git_buf_grow()
on buffers
borrowing the memory they point to.
v0.22
——
### Changes or improvements
git_signature_new()
now requires a non-empty email address.
Use CommonCrypto libraries for SHA-1 calculation on Mac OS X.
Disable SSL compression and SSLv2 and SSLv3 ciphers in favor of TLSv1
in OpenSSL.
The fetch behavior of remotes with autotag set to GIT_REMOTE_DOWNLOAD_TAGS_ALL
has been changed to match git 1.9.0 and later. In this mode, libgit2 now
fetches all tags in addition to whatever else needs to be fetched.
git_checkout()
now handles case-changing renames correctly on
case-insensitive filesystems; for example renaming “readme” to “README”.
The search for libssh2 is now done via pkg-config instead of a
custom search of a few directories.
Add support for core.protectHFS and core.protectNTFS. Add more
validation for filenames which we write such as references.
The local transport now generates textual progress output like
git-upload-pack does (“counting objects”).
git_checkout_index()
can now check out an in-memory index that is not
necessarily the repository’s index, so you may check out an index
that was produced by git_merge and friends while retaining the cached
information.
Remove the default timeout for receiving / sending data over HTTP using
the WinHTTP transport layer.
Add SPNEGO (Kerberos) authentication using GSSAPI on Unix systems.
Provide built-in objects for the empty blob (e69de29) and empty
tree (4b825dc) objects.
The index’ tree cache is now filled upon read-tree and write-tree
and the cache is written to disk.
LF -> CRLF filter refuses to handle mixed-EOL files
LF -> CRLF filter now runs when text = auto (with Git for Windows 1.9.4)
File unlocks are atomic again via rename. Read-only files on Windows are
made read-write if necessary.
Share open packfiles across repositories to share descriptors and mmaps.
Use a map for the treebuilder, making insertion O(1)
The build system now accepts an option EMBED_SSH_PATH which when set
tells it to include a copy of libssh2 at the given location. This is
enabled for MSVC.
Add support for refspecs with the asterisk in the middle of a
pattern.
Fetching now performs opportunistic updates. To achieve this, we
introduce a difference between active and passive refspecs, which
make git_remote_download()
and git_remote_fetch()
to take a list of
resfpecs to be the active list, similarly to how git fetch accepts a
list on the command-line.
The THREADSAFE option to build libgit2 with threading support has
been flipped to be on by default.
The remote object has learnt to prune remote-tracking branches. If
the remote is configured to do so, this will happen via
git_remote_fetch()
. You can also call git_remote_prune()
after
connecting or fetching to perform the prune.
### API additions
Introduce git_buf_text_is_binary()
and git_buf_text_contains_nul()
for
consumers to perform binary detection on a git_buf.
git_branch_upstream_remote()
has been introduced to provide the
branch.<name>.remote configuration value.
Introduce git_describe_commit()
and git_describe_workdir()
to provide
a description of the current commit (and working tree, respectively)
based on the nearest tag or reference
Introduce git_merge_bases()
and the git_oidarray
type to expose all
merge bases between two commits.
Introduce git_merge_bases_many()
to expose all merge bases between
multiple commits.
Introduce rebase functionality (using the merge algorithm only).
Introduce git_rebase_init()
to begin a new rebase session,
git_rebase_open()
to open an in-progress rebase session,
git_rebase_commit()
to commit the current rebase operation,
git_rebase_next()
to apply the next rebase operation,
git_rebase_abort()
to abort an in-progress rebase and git_rebase_finish()
to complete a rebase operation.
Introduce git_note_author()
and git_note_committer()
to get the author
and committer information on a git_note
, respectively.
A factory function for ssh has been added which allows to change the
path of the programs to execute for receive-pack and upload-pack on
the server, git_transport_ssh_with_paths()
.
The ssh transport supports asking the remote host for accepted
credential types as well as multiple challeges using a single
connection. This requires to know which username you want to connect
as, so this introduces the USERNAME credential type which the ssh
transport will use to ask for the username.
The GIT_EPEEL
error code has been introduced when we cannot peel a tag
to the requested object type; if the given object otherwise cannot be
peeled, GIT_EINVALIDSPEC
is returned.
Introduce GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_RELATIVE_GITLINK
to use relative paths
when writing gitlinks, as is used by git core for submodules.
git_remote_prune()
has been added. See above for description.
Introduce reference transactions, which allow multiple references to
be locked at the same time and updates be queued. This also allows
us to safely update a reflog with arbitrary contents, as we need to
do for stash.
### API removals
git_remote_supported_url()
and git_remote_is_valid_url()
have been
removed as they have become essentially useless with rsync-style ssh paths.
git_clone_into()
and git_clone_local_into()
have been removed from the
public API in favour of git_clone callbacks
.
The option to ignore certificate errors via git_remote_cert_check()
is no longer present. Instead, git_remote_callbacks
has gained a new
entry which lets the user perform their own certificate checks.
### Breaking API changes
git_cherry_pick()
is now git_cherrypick()
.
The git_submodule_update()
function was renamed to
git_submodule_update_strategy()
. git_submodule_update()
is now used to
provide functionalty similar to “git submodule update”.
git_treebuilder_create()
was renamed to git_treebuilder_new()
to better
reflect it being a constructor rather than something which writes to
disk.
git_treebuilder_new()
(was git_treebuilder_create()
) now takes a
repository so that it can query repository configuration.
Subsequently, git_treebuilder_write()
no longer takes a repository.
git_threads_init()
and git_threads_shutdown()
have been renamed to
git_libgit2_init()
and git_libgit2_shutdown()
to better explain what
their purpose is, as it’s grown to be more than just about threads.
git_libgit2_init()
and git_libgit2_shutdown()
now return the number of
initializations of the library, so consumers may schedule work on the
first initialization.
The git_transport_register()
function no longer takes a priority and takes
a URL scheme name (eg “http”) instead of a prefix like “http://“
git_index_name_entrycount()
and git_index_reuc_entrycount()
now
return size_t instead of unsigned int.
The context_lines
and interhunk_lines
fields in git_diff
_options are
now uint32_t
instead of uint16_t
. This allows to set them to UINT_MAX
,
in effect asking for “infinite” context e.g. to iterate over all the
unmodified lines of a diff.
git_status_file()
now takes an exact path. Use git_status_list_new()
if
pathspec searching is needed.
git_note_create()
has changed the position of the notes reference
name to match git_note_remove()
.
Rename git_remote_load()
to git_remote_lookup()
to bring it in line
with the rest of the lookup functions.
git_remote_rename()
now takes the repository and the remote’s
current name. Accepting a remote indicates we want to change it,
which we only did partially. It is much clearer if we accept a name
and no loaded objects are changed.
git_remote_delete()
now accepts the repository and the remote’s name
instead of a loaded remote.
git_merge_head
is now git_annotated_commit
, to better reflect its usage
for multiple functions (including rebase)
The git_clone_options
struct no longer provides the ignore_cert_errors
or
remote_name
members for remote customization.
Instead, the git_clone_options
struct has two new members, remote_cb
and
remote_cb_payload
, which allow the caller to completely override the remote
creation process. If needed, the caller can use this callback to give their
remote a name other than the default (origin) or disable cert checking.
The remote_callbacks
member has been preserved for convenience, although it
is not used when a remote creation callback is supplied.
The git_clone
_options struct now provides repository_cb
and
repository_cb_payload
to allow the user to create a repository with
custom options.
The git_push
struct to perform a push has been replaced with
git_remote_upload()
. The refspecs and options are passed as a
function argument. git_push_update_tips()
is now also
git_remote_update_tips()
and the callbacks are in the same struct as
the rest.
The git_remote_set_transport()
function now sets a transport factory function,
rather than a pre-existing transport instance.
The git_transport
structure definition has moved into the sys/transport.h
file.
* libgit2 no longer automatically sets the OpenSSL locking
functions. This is not something which we can know to do. A
last-resort convenience function is provided in sys/openssl.h,
git_openssl_set_locking()
which can be used to set the locking.
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v1.2
-----
This is release v1.2.0, "Absacker". This release includes many new features: in particular, support for commit graphs, multi-pack indexes, and `core.longpaths` support.
This is meant to be the final minor release in the v1 lineage. v2.0 will be the next major release and will remove deprecated APIs and may include breaking changes.
## Deprecated APIs
* revspec: rename git_revparse_mode_t to git_revspec_t by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5786
* tree: deprecate `git_treebuilder_write_with_buffer` by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5815
* Deprecate `is_valid_name` functions; replace with `name_is_valid` functions by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5659
* filter: stop taking git_buf as user input by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5859
* remote: introduce remote_ready_cb, deprecate resolve_url callback by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6012
* Introduce `create_commit_cb`, deprecate `signing_cb` by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6016
* filter: filter drivers stop taking git_buf as user input by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6011
* buf: deprecate public git_buf writing functions by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6017
## New features
* winhttp: support optional client cert by @ianhattendorf in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5384
* Add support for additional SSH hostkey types. by @arroz in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5750
* Handle ipv6 addresses by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5741
* zlib: Add support for building with Chromium's zlib implementation by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5748
* commit-graph: Introduce a parser for commit-graph files by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5762
* patch: add owner accessor by @KOLANICH in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5731
* commit-graph: Support lookups of entries in a commit-graph by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5763
* commit-graph: Introduce `git_commit_graph_needs_refresh()` by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5764
* Working directory path validation by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5823
* Support `core.longpaths` on Windows by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5857
* git_reference_create_matching: Treat all-zero OID as "must be absent" by @novalis in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5842
* diff:add option to ignore blank line changes by @yuuri in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5853
* [Submodule] Git submodule dup by @lolgear in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5890
* commit-graph: Use the commit-graph in revwalks by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5765
* commit-graph: Introduce `git_commit_list_generation_cmp` by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5766
* graph: Create `git_graph_reachable_from_any()` by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5767
* Support reading attributes from a specific commit by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5952
* [Branch] Branch upstream with format by @lolgear in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5861
* Dynamically load OpenSSL (optionally) by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5974
* Set refs/remotes/origin/HEAD to default branch when branch is specified by @A-Ovchinnikov-mx in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6010
* midx: Add a way to write multi-pack-index files by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5404
* Use error code GIT_EAUTH for authentication failures by @josharian in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5395
* midx: Introduce git_odb_write_multi_pack_index() by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5405
* Checkout dry-run by @J0Nes90 in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5841
* mbedTLS: Fix setting certificate directory by @mikezackles in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6004
* remote: introduce remote_ready_cb, deprecate resolve_url callback by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6012
* Introduce `create_commit_cb`, deprecate `signing_cb` by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6016
* commit-graph: Add a way to write commit-graph files by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5778
## Bug fixes
* Define `git___load` when building with `-DTHREADSAFE=OFF` by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5664
* Make the Windows leak detection more robust by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5661
* Refactor "global" state by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5546
* threadstate: rename tlsdata when building w/o threads by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5668
* Include `${MBEDTLS_INCLUDE_DIR}` when compiling `crypt_mbedtls.c` by @staticfloat in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5685
* Fix the `-DTHREADSAFE=OFF` build by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5690
* Add missing worktree_dir check and test case by @rbmclean in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5692
* msvc crtdbg -> win32 leakcheck by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5580
* Introduce GIT_ASSERT macros by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5327
* Also add the raw hostkey to `git_cert_hostkey` by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5704
* Make the odb race-free by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5595
* Make the pack and mwindow implementations data-race-free by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5593
* Thread-free implementation by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5719
* Thread-local storage: a generic internal library (with no allocations) by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5720
* Friendlier getting started in the lack of git_libgit2_init by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5578
* Make git__strntol64() ~70%* faster by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5735
* Cache the parsed submodule config when diffing by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5727
* pack: continue zlib while we can make progress by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5740
* Avoid using `__builtin_mul_overflow` with the clang+32-bit combo by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5742
* repository: use intptr_t's in the config map cache by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5746
* Build with NO_MMAP by @0xdky in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5583
* Add documentation for git_blob_filter_options.version by @JoshuaS3 in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5759
* blob: fix name of `GIT_BLOB_FILTER_ATTRIBUTES_FROM_HEAD` by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5760
* Cope with empty default branch by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5770
* README: instructions for using libgit2 without compiling by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5772
* Use `p_pwrite`/`p_pread` consistently throughout the codebase by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5769
* midx: Fix a bug in `git_midx_needs_refresh()` by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5768
* mwindow: Fix a bug in the LRU window finding code by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5783
* refdb_fs: Check git_sortedcache wlock/rlock errors by @mamapanda in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5800
* index: Check git_vector_dup error in write_entries by @mamapanda in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5801
* Fix documentation formating on repository.h by @punkymaniac in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5806
* include: fix typos in comments by @tniessen in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5805
* Fix some typos by @aaronfranke in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5797
* Check git_signature_dup failure by @mamapanda in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5817
* merge: Check insert_head_ids error in create_virtual_base by @mamapanda in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5818
* winhttp: skip certificate check if unable to send request by @ianhattendorf in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5814
* Default to GIT_BRANCH_DEFAULT if init.defaultBranch is empty string by @ianhattendorf in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5832
* Fix diff_entrycount -> diff_num_deltas doc typo by @mjsir911 in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5838
* repo: specify init.defaultbranch is meant to be a branch name by @carlosmn in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5835
* repo: remove an inappropriate use of PASSTHROUGH by @carlosmn in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5834
* src: fix typos in header files by @tniessen in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5843
* test: clean up memory leaks by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5858
* buf: remove unnecessary buf_text namespace by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5860
* Fix bug in git_diff_find_similar. by @staktrace in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5839
* Fix issues with Proxy Authentication after httpclient refactor by @implausible in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5852
* tests: clean up memory leak, fail on leak for win32 by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5892
* Tolerate readlink size less than st_size by @dtolnay in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5900
* Define WINHTTP_NO_CLIENT_CERT_CONTEXT if needed by @jacquesg in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5929
* Update from regex to pcre licensing information in docs/contributing.md by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5916
* Consider files executable only if the user can execute them by @novalis in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5915
* git__timer: Limit ITimer usage to AmigaOS4 by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5936
* Fix memory leak in git_smart__connect by @punkymaniac in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5908
* config: fix included configs not refreshed more than once by @Batchyx in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5926
* Fix wrong time_t used in function by @NattyNarwhal in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5938
* fix check for ignoring of negate rules by @palmin in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5824
* Make `FIND_PACKAGE(PythonInterp)` prefer `python3` by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5913
* git__timer: Allow compilation on systems without CLOCK_MONOTONIC by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5945
* stdintification: use int64_t and INT64_C instead of long long by @NattyNarwhal in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5941
* Optional stricter allocation checking (for `malloc(0)` cases) by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5951
* Variadic arguments aren't in C89 by @NattyNarwhal in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5948
* Fix typo in general.c by @Crayon2000 in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5954
* common.h: use inline when compiling for C99 and later by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5953
* Fix one memory leak in master by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5957
* tests: reset odb backend priority by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5961
* cmake: extended futimens checking on macOS by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5962
* amiga: use ';' as path list separator on AmigaOS by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5978
* Respect the force flag on refspecs in git_remote_fetch by @alexjg in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5854
* Fix LIBGIT2_FILENAME not being passed to the resource compiler by @jairbubbles in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5994
* sha1dc: remove conditional for <sys/types.h> by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5997
* openssl: don't fail when we can't customize allocators by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5999
* C11 warnings by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6005
* open: input validation for empty segments in path by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5950
* Introduce GIT_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5802
* GCC C11 warnings by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6006
* array: check dereference from void * type by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6007
* Homogenize semantics for atomic-related functions by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5747
* git_array_alloc: return objects of correct type by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6008
* CMake. hash sha1 header has been added. by @lolgear in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6013
* tests: change comments to c89 style by @boretrk in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6015
* Set Host Header to match CONNECT authority target by @lollipopman in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6022
* Fix worktree iteration when repository has no common directory by @kcsaul in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5943
## Documentation improvements
* Update README.md for additional Delphi bindings by @todaysoftware in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5831
* Fix documentation formatting by @punkymaniac in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5850
* docs: fix incorrect comment marker by @tiennou in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5897
* Patch documentation by @punkymaniac in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5903
* Fix misleading doc for `git_index_find` by @arxanas in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5910
* docs: stop mentioning libgit2's "master" branch by @Batchyx in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5925
* docs: fix some missing includes that cause Docurium to error out by @tiennou in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5917
* Patch documentation by @punkymaniac in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5940
## Development improvements
* WIP: .devcontainer: settings for a codespace workflow by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5508
## CI Improvements
* Add a ThreadSanitizer build by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5597
* ci: more GitHub Actions by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5706
* ci: run coverity in the nightly builds by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5707
* ci: only report main branch in README status by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5708
* Fix the `ENABLE_WERROR=ON` build in Groovy Gorilla (gcc 10.2) by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5715
* Re-enable the RC4 test by @carlosmn in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/4418
* ci: run codeql by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5709
* github-actions: Also rename the main branch here by @lhchavez in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5771
* ci: don't use ninja on macOS by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5780
* ci: use GitHub for storing mingw-w64 build dependency by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5855
* docker: remove the entrypoint by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5980
* http: don't require a password by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5972
* ci: update nightly to use source path by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5989
* ci: add centos 7 and centos 8 by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5992
* ci: update centos builds by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5995
* ci: tag new containers with the latest tag by @ethomson in https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6000
## Dependency updates
* ntlm: [ntlmclient](https://github.com/ethomson/ntlmclient) is now v0.9.1
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0
v1.1
----
This is release v1.1, "Fernweh".
### Changes or improvements
* Our bundled PCRE dependency has been updated to 8.44.
* The `refs/remotes/origin/HEAD` file will be created at clone time to
point to the origin's default branch.
* libgit2 now uses the `__atomic_` intrinsics instead of `__sync_`
intrinsics on supported gcc and clang versions.
* The `init.defaultBranch` setting is now respected and `master` is
no longer the hardcoded as the default branch name.
* Patch files that do not contain an `index` line can now be parsed.
* Configuration files with multi-line values can now contain quotes
split across multiple lines.
* Windows clients now attempt to use TLS1.3 when available.
* Servers that request an upgrade to a newer HTTP version are
silently ignored instead of erroneously failing.
* Users can pass `NULL` to the options argument to
`git_describe_commit`.
* Clones and fetches of very large packfiles now succeeds on 32-bit
platforms.
* Custom reference database backends can now handle the repository's
`HEAD` correctly.
* Repositories with a large number of packfiles no longer exhaust the
number of file descriptors.
* The test framework now supports TAP output when the `-t` flag is
specified.
* The test framework can now specify an exact match to a test
function using a trailing `$`.
* All checkout types support `GIT_CHECKOUT_DISABLE_PATHSPEC_MATCH`.
* `git_blame` now can ignore whitespace changes using the option
`GIT_BLAME_IGNORE_WHITESPACE`.
* Several new examples have been created, including an examples for
commit, add and push.
* Mode changes during rename are now supported in patch application.
* `git_checkout_head` now correctly removes untracked files in a
subdirectory when the `FORCE | REMOVE_UNTRACKED` options are specified.
v1.0.1
------
This is a bugfix release with the following changes:
- Calculating information about renamed files during merges is more
efficient because dissimilarity about files is now being cached and
no longer needs to be recomputed.
- The `git_worktree_prune_init_options` has been correctly restored for
backward compatibility. In v1.0 it was incorrectly deprecated with a
typo.
- The optional ntlmclient dependency now supports NetBSD.
- A bug where attempting to stash on a bare repository may have failed
has been fixed.
- Configuration files that are unreadable due to permissions are now
silently ignored, and treated as if they do not exist. This matches
git's behavior; previously this case would have been an error.
- v4 index files are now correctly written; previously we would read
them correctly but would not write the prefix-compression accurately,
causing corruption.
- A bug where the smart HTTP transport could not read large data packets
has been fixed. Previously, fetching from servers like Gerrit, that
sent large data packets, would error.
v1.0
----
This is release v1.0 "Luftschloss", which is the first stabe release of
libgit2. The API will stay compatible across all releases of the same major
version. This release includes bugfixes only and supersedes v0.99, which will
stop being maintained. Both v0.27 and v0.28 stay supported in accordance with
our release policy.
### Changes or improvements
- CMake was converted to make use of the GNUInstallDirs module for both our
pkgconfig and install targets in favor of our custom build options
`BIN_INSTALL_DIR`, `LIB_INSTALL_DIR` and `INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR`. Instead, you
can now use CMakes standard variables `CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR`,
`CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR` and `CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR`.
- Some CMake build options accepted either a specific value or a boolean value
to disable the option altogether or use automatic detection. We only accepted
"ON" or "OFF", but none of the other values CMake recognizes as boolean. This
was aligned with CMake's understanding of booleans.
- The installed pkgconfig file contained incorrect values for both `libdir` and
`includedir` variables.
- If using pcre2 for regular expressions, then we incorrectly added "pcre2"
instead of "pcre2-8" to our pkgconfig dependencies, which was corrected.
- Fixed building the bundled ntlmclient dependency on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and
SunOS.
- When writing symlinks on Windows, we incorrectly handled relative symlink
targets, which was corrected.
- When using the HTTP protocol via macOS' SecureTransport implementation, reads
could stall at the end of the session and only continue after a timeout of 60
seconds was reached.
- The filesystem-based reference callback didn't corectly initialize the backend
version.
- A segmentation fault was fixed when calling `git_blame_buffer()` for files
that were modified and added to the index.
- A backwards-incompatible change was introduced when we moved some structures
from "git2/credentials.h" into "git2/sys/credentials.h". This was fixed in the
case where you do not use hard deprecation.
- Improved error handling in various places.
v0.99
-----
This is v0.99 "Torschlusspanik". This will be the last minor release
before libgit2 v1.0. We expect to only respond to bugs in this release,
to stabilize it for next major release.
It contains significant refactorings, but is expected to be API-compatible
with v0.28.0.
### Changes or improvements
* When fetching from an anonymous remote using a URL with authentication
information provided in the URL (eg `https://foo:bar@example.com/repo`),
we would erroneously include the literal URL in the FETCH_HEAD file.
We now remove that to match git's behavior.
* Some credential structures, enums and values have been renamed:
`git_cred` is now `git_credential`. `git_credtype_t` is now
`git_credential_t`. Functions and types beginning with
`git_cred_` now begin with `git_credential`, and constants beginning
with `GIT_CREDTYPE` now begin with `GIT_CREDENTIAL`. The former names
are deprecated.
* Several function signatures have been changed to return an `int` to
indicate error conditions. We encourage you to check them for errors
in the standard way.
* `git_attr_cache_flush`
* `git_error_set_str`
* `git_index_name_clear`
* `git_index_reuc_clear`
* `git_libgit2_version`
* `git_mempack_reset`
* `git_oid_cpy`
* `git_oid_fmt`
* `git_oid_fromraw`
* `git_oid_nfmt`
* `git_oid_pathfmt`
* `git_remote_stop`
* `git_remote_disconnect`
* `git_repository__cleanup`
* `git_repository_set_config`
* `git_repository_set_index`
* `git_repository_set_odb`
* `git_repository_set_refdb`
* `git_revwalk_reset`
* `git_revwalk_simplify_first_parent`
* `git_revwalk_sorting`
* `git_treebuilder_clear`
* `git_treebuilder_filter`
* The NTLM and Negotiate authentication mechanisms are now supported when
talking to git implementations hosted on Apache or nginx servers.
* The `HEAD` symbolic reference can no longer be deleted.
* `git_merge_driver_source_repo` no longer returns a `const git_repository *`,
it now returns a non-`const` `git_repository *`.
* Relative symbolic links are now supported on Windows when `core.symlinks`
is enabled.
* Servers that provide query parameters with a redirect are now supported.
* `git_submodule_sync` will now resolve relative URLs.
* When creating git endpoint URLs, double-slashes are no longer used when
the given git URL has a trailing slash.
* On Windows, a `DllMain` function is no longer included and thread-local
storage has moved to fiber-local storage in order to prevent race
conditions during shutdown.
* The tracing mechanism (`GIT_TRACE`) is now enabled by default and does
not need to be explicitly enabled in CMake.
* The size of Git objects is now represented by `git_object_size_t`
instead of `off_t`.
* Binary patches without data can now be parsed.
* A configuration snapshot can now be created from another configuration
snapshot, not just a "true" configuration object.
* The `git_commit_with_signature` API will now ensure that referenced
objects exist in the object database.
* Stash messages containing newlines will now be replaced with spaces;
they will no longer be (erroneously) written to the repository.
* `git_commit_create_with_signature` now verifies the commit information
to ensure that it points to a valid tree and valid parents.
* `git_apply` has an option `GIT_APPLY_CHECK` that will only do a dry-run.
The index and working directory will remain unmodified, and application
will report if it would have worked.
* Patches produced by Mercurial (those that lack some git extended headers)
can now be parsed and applied.
* Reference locks are obeyed correctly on POSIX platforms, instead of
being removed.
* Patches with empty new files can now be read and applied.
* `git_apply_to_tree` can now correctly apply patches that add new files.
* The program data configuration on Windows (`C:\ProgramData\Git\config`)
must be owned by an administrator, a system account or the current user
to be read.
* `git_blob_filtered_content` is now deprecated in favor of `git_blob_filter`.
* Configuration files can now be included conditionally using the
`onbranch` conditional.
* Checkout can now properly create and remove symbolic links to directories
on Windows.
* Stash no longer recomputes trees when committing a worktree, for
improved performance.
* Repository templates can now include a `HEAD` file to default the
initial default branch.
* Some configuration structures, enums and values have been renamed:
`git_cvar_map` is now `git_configmap`, `git_cvar_t` is now
`git_configmap_t`, `GIT_CVAR_FALSE` is now `GIT_CONFIGMAP_FALSE`,
`GIT_CVAR_TRUE` is now `GIT_CONFIGMAP_TRUE`, `GIT_CVAR_INT32` is now
`GIT_CONFIGMAP_INT32`, and `GIT_CVAR_STRING` is now `GIT_CONFIGMAP_STRING`.
The former names are deprecated.
* Repositories can now be created at the root of a Windows drive.
* Configuration lookups are now more efficiently cached.
* `git_commit_create_with_signature` now supports a `NULL` signature,
which will create a commit without adding a signature.
* When a repository lacks an `info` "common directory", we will no
longer erroneously return `GIT_ENOTFOUND` for all attribute lookups.
* Several attribute macros have been renamed: `GIT_ATTR_TRUE` is now
`GIT_ATTR_IS_TRUE`, `GIT_ATTR_FALSE` is now `GIT_ATTR_IS_FALSE`,
`GIT_ATTR_UNSPECIFIED` is now `GIT_ATTR_IS_UNSPECIFIED`. The
attribute enum `git_attr_t` is now `git_attr_value_t` and its
values have been renamed: `GIT_ATTR_UNSPECIFIED_T` is now
`GIT_ATTR_VALUE_UNSPECIFIED`, `GIT_ATTR_TRUE_T` is now
`GIT_ATTR_VALUE_TRUE`, `GIT_ATTR_FALSE_T` is now `GIT_ATTR_VALUE_FALSE`,
and `GIT_ATTR_VALUE_T` is now `GIT_ATTR_VALUE_STRING`. The
former names are deprecated.
* `git_object__size` is now `git_object_size`. The former name is
deprecated.
* `git_tag_create_frombuffer` is now `git_tag_create_from_buffer`. The
former name is deprecated.
* Several blob creation functions have been renamed:
`git_blob_create_frombuffer` is now named `git_blob_create_from_buffer`,
`git_blob_create_fromdisk` is now named `git_blob_create_from_disk`,
`git_blob_create_fromworkdir` is now named `git_blob_create_from_workdir`,
`git_blob_create_fromstream` is now named `git_blob_create_from_stream`,
and `git_blob_create_fromstream_commit` is now named
`git_blob_create_from_stream_commit`. The former names are deprecated.
* The function `git_oid_iszero` is now named `git_oid_is_zero`. The
former name is deprecated.
* Pattern matching is now done using `wildmatch` instead of `fnmatch`
for compatibility with git.
* The option initialization functions suffixed by `init_options` are now
suffixed with `options_init`. (For example, `git_checkout_init_options`
is now `git_checkout_options_init`.) The former names are deprecated.
* NTLM2 authentication is now supported on non-Windows platforms.
* The `git_cred_sign_callback` callback is now named `git_cred_sign_cb`.
The `git_cred_ssh_interactive_callback` callback is now named
`git_cred_ssh_interactive_cb`.
* Ignore files now:
* honor escaped trailing whitespace.
* do not incorrectly negate sibling paths of a negated pattern.
* honor rules that stop ignoring files after a wildcard
* Attribute files now:
* honor leading and trailing whitespace.
* treat paths beginning with `\` as absolute only on Windows.
* properly handle escaped characters.
* stop reading macros defined in subdirectories
* The C locale is now correctly used when parsing regular expressions.
* The system PCRE2 or PCRE regular expression libraries are now used
when `regcomp_l` is not available on the system. If none of these
are available on the system, an included version of PCRE is used.
* Wildcards in reference specifications are now supported beyond simply
a bare wildcard (`*`) for compatibility with git.
* When `git_ignore_path_is_ignored` is provided a path with a trailing
slash (eg, `dir/`), it will now treat it as a directory for the
purposes of ignore matching.
* Patches that add or remove a file with a space in the path can now
be correctly parsed.
* The `git_remote_completion_type` type is now `git_remote_completion_t`.
The former name is deprecated.
* The `git_odb_backend_malloc` is now `git_odb_backend_data_alloc`. The
former name is deprecated.
* The `git_transfer_progress_cb` callback is now `git_indexer_progress_cb`
and the `git_transfer_progress` structure is now `git_indexer_progress`.
The former names are deprecated.
* The example projects are now contained in a single `lg2` executable
for ease of use.
* libgit2 now correctly handles more URLs, such as
`http://example.com:/repo.git` (colon but no port),
`http://example.com` (no path),
and `http://example.com:8080/` (path is /, nonstandard port).
* A carefully constructed commit object with a very large number
of parents may lead to potential out-of-bounds writes or
potential denial of service.
* The ProgramData configuration file is always read for compatibility
with Git for Windows and Portable Git installations. The ProgramData
location is not necessarily writable only by administrators, so we
now ensure that the configuration file is owned by the administrator
or the current user.
### API additions
* The SSH host key now supports SHA-256 when `GIT_CERT_SSH_SHA256` is set.
* The diff format option `GIT_DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH_ID` can now be used to
emit an output like `git patch-id`.
* The `git_apply_options_init` function will initialize a
`git_apply_options` structure.
* The remote callbacks structure adds a `git_url_resolve_cb` callback
that is invoked when connecting to a server, so that applications
may edit or replace the URL before connection.
* The information about the original `HEAD` in a rebase operation is
available with `git_rebase_orig_head_name`. Its ID is available with
`git_rebase_orig_head_id`. The `onto` reference name is available with
`git_rebase_onto_name` and its ID is available with `git_rebase_onto_id`.
* ODB backends can now free backend data when an error occurs during its
backend data creation using `git_odb_backend_data_free`.
* Options may be specified to `git_repository_foreach_head` to control
its behavior: `GIT_REPOSITORY_FOREACH_HEAD_SKIP_REPO` will not skip
the main repository's HEAD reference, while
`GIT_REPOSITORY_FOREACH_HEAD_SKIP_WORKTREES` will now skip the
worktree HEAD references.
* The `GIT_OPT_DISABLE_PACK_KEEP_FILE_CHECKS` option can be specified to
`git_libgit2_opts()` to avoid looking for `.keep` files that correspond
to packfiles. This setting can improve performance when packfiles are
stored on high-latency filesystems like network filesystems.
* Blobs can now be filtered with `git_blob_filter`, which allows for
options to be set with `git_blob_filter_options`, including
`GIT_FILTER_NO_SYSTEM_ATTRIBUTES` to disable filtering with system-level
attributes in `/etc/gitattributes` and `GIT_ATTR_CHECK_INCLUDE_HEAD` to
enable filtering with `.gitattributes` files in the HEAD revision.
### API removals
* The unused `git_headlist_cb` function declaration was removed.
* The unused `git_time_monotonic` API is removed.
* The erroneously exported `inttypes.h` header was removed.
# Security Fixes
- CVE-2019-1348: the fast-import stream command "feature
export-marks=path" allows writing to arbitrary file paths. As
libgit2 does not offer any interface for fast-import, it is not
susceptible to this vulnerability.
- CVE-2019-1349: by using NTFS 8.3 short names, backslashes or
alternate filesystreams, it is possible to cause submodules to
be written into pre-existing directories during a recursive
clone using git. As libgit2 rejects cloning into non-empty
directories by default, it is not susceptible to this
vulnerability.
- CVE-2019-1350: recursive clones may lead to arbitrary remote
code executing due to improper quoting of command line
arguments. As libgit2 uses libssh2, which does not require us
to perform command line parsing, it is not susceptible to this
vulnerability.
- CVE-2019-1351: Windows provides the ability to substitute
drive letters with arbitrary letters, including multi-byte
Unicode letters. To fix any potential issues arising from
interpreting such paths as relative paths, we have extended
detection of DOS drive prefixes to accomodate for such cases.
- CVE-2019-1352: by using NTFS-style alternative file streams for
the ".git" directory, it is possible to overwrite parts of the
repository. While this has been fixed in the past for Windows,
the same vulnerability may also exist on other systems that
write to NTFS filesystems. We now reject any paths starting
with ".git:" on all systems.
- CVE-2019-1353: by using NTFS-style 8.3 short names, it was
possible to write to the ".git" directory and thus overwrite
parts of the repository, leading to possible remote code
execution. While this problem was already fixed in the past for
Windows, other systems accessing NTFS filesystems are
vulnerable to this issue too. We now enable NTFS protecions by
default on all systems to fix this attack vector.
- CVE-2019-1354: on Windows, backslashes are not a valid part of
a filename but are instead interpreted as directory separators.
As other platforms allowed to use such paths, it was possible
to write such invalid entries into a Git repository and was
thus an attack vector to write into the ".git" dierctory. We
now reject any entries starting with ".git\" on all systems.
- CVE-2019-1387: it is possible to let a submodule's git
directory point into a sibling's submodule directory, which may
result in overwriting parts of the Git repository and thus lead
to arbitrary command execution. As libgit2 doesn't provide any
way to do submodule clones natively, it is not susceptible to
this vulnerability. Users of libgit2 that have implemented
recursive submodule clones manually are encouraged to review
their implementation for this vulnerability.
### Breaking API changes
* The "private" implementation details of the `git_cred` structure have been
moved to a dedicated `git2/sys/cred.h` header, to clarify that the underlying
structures are only provided for custom transport implementers.
The breaking change is that the `username` member of the underlying struct
is now hidden, and a new `git_cred_get_username` function has been provided.
* Some errors of class `GIT_ERROR_NET` now have class `GIT_ERROR_HTTP`.
Most authentication failures now have error code `GIT_EAUTH` instead of `GIT_ERROR`.
### Breaking CMake configuration changes
* The CMake option to use a system http-parser library, instead of the
bundled dependency, has changed. This is due to a deficiency in
http-parser that we have fixed in our implementation. The bundled
library is now the default, but if you wish to force the use of the
system http-parser implementation despite incompatibilities, you can
specify `-DUSE_HTTP_PARSER=system` to CMake.
* The interactions between `USE_HTTPS` and `SHA1_BACKEND` have been
streamlined. The detection was moved to a new `USE_SHA1`, modeled after
`USE_HTTPS`, which takes the values "CollisionDetection/Backend/Generic", to
better match how the "hashing backend" is selected, the default (ON) being
"CollisionDetection". If you were using `SHA1_BACKEND` previously, you'll
need to check the value you've used, or switch to the autodetection.
### Authors
The following individuals provided changes that were included in this
release:
* Aaron Patterson
* Alberto Fanjul
* Anders Borum
* Augie Fackler
* Augustin Fabre
* Ayush Shridhar
* brian m. carlson
* buddyspike
* Carlos Martín Nieto
* cheese1
* Dan Skorupski
* Daniel Cohen Gindi
* Dave Lee
* David Brooks
* David Turner
* Denis Laxalde
* Dhruva Krishnamurthy
* Dominik Ritter
* Drew DeVault
* Edward Thomson
* Eric Huss
* Erik Aigner
* Etienne Samson
* Gregory Herrero
* Heiko Voigt
* Ian Hattendorf
* Jacques Germishuys
* Janardhan Pulivarthi
* Jason Haslam
* Johannes Schindelin
* Jordan Wallet
* Josh Bleecher Snyder
* kas
* kdj0c
* Laurence McGlashan
* lhchavez
* Lukas Berk
* Max Kostyukevich
* Patrick Steinhardt
* pcpthm
* Remy Suen
* Robert Coup
* romkatv
* Scott Furry
* Sebastian Henke
* Stefan Widgren
* Steve King Jr
* Sven Strickroth
* Tobias Nießen
* Tyler Ang-Wanek
* Tyler Wanek
v0.28
-----
### Changes or improvements
* The library is now always built with cdecl calling conventions on
Windows; the ability to build a stdcall library has been removed.
* Reference log creation now honors `core.logallrefupdates=always`.
* Fix some issues with the error-reporting in the OpenSSL backend.
* HTTP proxy support is now builtin; libcurl is no longer used to support
proxies and is removed as a dependency.
* Certificate and credential callbacks can now return `GIT_PASSTHROUGH`
to decline to act; libgit2 will behave as if there was no callback set
in the first place.
* The line-ending filtering logic - when checking out files - has been
updated to match newer git (>= git 2.9) for proper interoperability.
* Symbolic links are now supported on Windows when `core.symlinks` is set
to `true`.
* Submodules with names which attempt to perform path traversal now have their
configuration ignored. Such names were blindly appended to the
`$GIT_DIR/modules` and a malicious name could lead to an attacker writing to
an arbitrary location. This matches git's handling of CVE-2018-11235.
* Object validation is now performed during tree creation in the
`git_index_write_tree_to` API.
* Configuration variable may now be specified on the same line as a section
header; previously this was erroneously a parser error.
* When an HTTP server supports both NTLM and Negotiate authentication
mechanisms, we would previously fail to authenticate with any mechanism.
* The `GIT_OPT_SET_PACK_MAX_OBJECTS` option can now set the maximum
number of objects allowed in a packfile being downloaded; this can help
limit the maximum memory used when fetching from an untrusted remote.
* Line numbers in diffs loaded from patch files were not being populated;
they are now included in the results.
* The repository's index is reloaded from disk at the beginning of
`git_merge` operations to ensure that it is up-to-date.
* Mailmap handling APIs have been introduced, and the new commit APIs
`git_commit_committer_with_mailmap` and `git_commit_author_with_mailmap`
will use the mailmap to resolve the committer and author information.
In addition, blame will use the mailmap given when the
`GIT_BLAME_USE_MAILMAP` option.
* Ignore handling for files in ignored folders would be ignored.
* Worktrees can now be backed by bare repositories.
* Trailing spaces are supported in `.gitignore` files, these spaces were
previously (and erroneously) treated as part of the pattern.
* The library can now be built with mbedTLS support for HTTPS.
* The diff status character 'T' will now be presented by the
`git_diff_status_char` API for diff entries that change type.
* Revision walks previously would sometimes include commits that should
have been ignored; this is corrected.
* Revision walks are now more efficient when the output is unsorted;
we now avoid walking all the way to the beginning of history unnecessarily.
* Error-handling around index extension loading has been fixed. We were
previously always misreporting a truncated index (#4858).
### API additions
* The index may now be iterated atomically using `git_index_iterator`.
* Remote objects can now be created with extended options using the
`git_remote_create_with_opts` API.
* Diff objects can now be applied as changes to the working directory,
index or both, emulating the `git apply` command. Additionally,
`git_apply_to_tree` can apply those changes to a tree object as a
fully in-memory operation.
* You can now swap out memory allocators via the
`GIT_OPT_SET_ALLOCATOR` option with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
* You can now ensure that functions do not discard unwritten changes to the
index via the `GIT_OPT_ENABLE_UNSAVED_INDEX_SAFETY` option to
`git_libgit2_opts()`. This will cause functions that implicitly re-read
the index (eg, `git_checkout`) to fail if you have staged changes to the
index but you have not written the index to disk. (Unless the checkout
has the FORCE flag specified.)
At present, this defaults to off, but we intend to enable this more
broadly in the future, as a warning or error. We encourage you to
examine your code to ensure that you are not relying on the current
behavior that implicitly removes staged changes.
* Reference specifications can be parsed from an arbitrary string with
the `git_refspec_parse` API.
* You can now get the name and path of worktrees using the
`git_worktree_name` and `git_worktree_path` APIs, respectively.
* The `ref` field has been added to `git_worktree_add_options` to enable
the creation of a worktree from a pre-existing branch.
* It's now possible to analyze merge relationships between any two
references, not just against `HEAD`, using `git_merge_analysis_for_ref`.
### API removals
* The `git_buf_free` API is deprecated; it has been renamed to
`git_buf_dispose` for consistency. The `git_buf_free` API will be
retained for backward compatibility for the foreseeable future.
* The `git_otype` enumeration and its members are deprecated and have
been renamed for consistency. The `GIT_OBJ_` enumeration values are
now prefixed with `GIT_OBJECT_`. The old enumerations and macros
will be retained for backward compatibility for the foreseeable future.
* Several index-related APIs have been renamed for consistency. The
`GIT_IDXENTRY_` enumeration values and macros have been renamed to
be prefixed with `GIT_INDEX_ENTRY_`. The `GIT_INDEXCAP` enumeration
values are now prefixed with `GIT_INDEX_CAPABILITY_`. The old
enumerations and macros will be retained for backward compatibility
for the foreseeable future.
* The error functions and enumeration values have been renamed for
consistency. The `giterr_` functions and values prefix have been
renamed to be prefixed with `git_error_`; similarly, the `GITERR_`
constants have been renamed to be prefixed with `GIT_ERROR_`.
The old enumerations and macros will be retained for backward
compatibility for the foreseeable future.
### Breaking API changes
* The default checkout strategy changed from `DRY_RUN` to `SAFE` (#4531).
* Adding a symlink as .gitmodules into the index from the workdir or checking
out such files is not allowed as this can make a Git implementation write
outside of the repository and bypass the fsck checks for CVE-2018-11235.
v0.27
---------
### Changes or improvements
* Improved `p_unlink` in `posix_w32.c` to try and make a file writable
before sleeping in the retry loop to prevent unnecessary calls to sleep.
* The CMake build infrastructure has been improved to speed up building time.
* A new CMake option "-DUSE_HTTPS=<backend>" makes it possible to explicitly
choose an HTTP backend.
* A new CMake option "-DSHA1_BACKEND=<backend>" makes it possible to explicitly
choose an SHA1 backend. The collision-detecting backend is now the default.
* A new CMake option "-DUSE_BUNDLED_ZLIB" makes it possible to explicitly use
the bundled zlib library.
* A new CMake option "-DENABLE_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILDS" makes it possible to
generate a reproducible static archive. This requires support from your
toolchain.
* The minimum required CMake version has been bumped to 2.8.11.
* Writing to a configuration file now preserves the case of the key given by the
caller for the case-insensitive portions of the key (existing sections are
used even if they don't match).
* We now support conditional includes in configuration files.
* Fix for handling re-reading of configuration files with includes.
* Fix for reading patches which contain exact renames only.
* Fix for reading patches with whitespace in the compared files' paths.
* We will now fill `FETCH_HEAD` from all passed refspecs instead of overwriting
with the last one.
* There is a new diff option, `GIT_DIFF_INDENT_HEURISTIC` which activates a
heuristic which takes into account whitespace and indentation in order to
produce better diffs when dealing with ambiguous diff hunks.
* Fix for pattern-based ignore rules where files ignored by a rule cannot be
un-ignored by another rule.
* Sockets opened by libgit2 are now being closed on exec(3) if the platform
supports it.
* Fix for peeling annotated tags from packed-refs files.
* Fix reading huge loose objects from the object database.
* Fix files not being treated as modified when only the file mode has changed.
* We now explicitly reject adding submodules to the index via
`git_index_add_frombuffer`.
* Fix handling of `GIT_DIFF_FIND_RENAMES_FROM_REWRITES` raising `SIGABRT` when
one file has been deleted and another file has been rewritten.
* Fix for WinHTTP not properly handling NTLM and Negotiate challenges.
* When using SSH-based transports, we now repeatedly ask for the passphrase to
decrypt the private key in case a wrong passphrase is being provided.
* When generating conflict markers, they will now use the same line endings as
the rest of the file.
### API additions
* The `git_merge_file_options` structure now contains a new setting,
`marker_size`. This allows users to set the size of markers that
delineate the sides of merged files in the output conflict file.
By default this is 7 (`GIT_MERGE_CONFLICT_MARKER_SIZE`), which
produces output markers like `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
* `git_remote_create_detached()` creates a remote that is not associated
to any repository (and does not apply configuration like 'insteadof' rules).
This is mostly useful for e.g. emulating `git ls-remote` behavior.
* `git_diff_patchid()` lets you generate patch IDs for diffs.
* `git_status_options` now has an additional field `baseline` to allow creating
status lists against different trees.
* New family of functions to allow creating notes for a specific notes commit
instead of for a notes reference.
* New family of functions to allow parsing message trailers. This API is still
experimental and may change in future releases.
### API removals
### Breaking API changes
* Signatures now distinguish between +0000 and -0000 UTC offsets.
* The certificate check callback in the WinHTTP transport will now receive the
`message_cb_payload` instead of the `cred_acquire_payload`.
* We are now reading symlinked directories under .git/refs.
* We now refuse creating branches named "HEAD".
* We now refuse reading and writing all-zero object IDs into the
object database.
* We now read the effective user's configuration file instead of the real user's
configuration in case libgit2 runs as part of a setuid binary.
* The `git_odb_open_rstream` function and its `readstream` callback in the
`git_odb_backend` interface have changed their signatures to allow providing
the object's size and type to the caller.
v0.26
-----
### Changes or improvements
* Support for opening, creating and modifying worktrees.
* We can now detect SHA1 collisions resulting from the SHAttered attack. These
checks can be enabled at build time via `-DUSE_SHA1DC`.
* Fix for missing implementation of `git_merge_driver_source` getters.
* Fix for installed pkg-config file being broken when the prefix contains
spaces.
* We now detect when the hashsum of on-disk objects does not match their
expected hashsum.
* We now support open-ended ranges (e.g. "master..", "...master") in our
revision range parsing code.
* We now correctly compute ignores with leading "/" in subdirectories.
* We now optionally call `fsync` on loose objects, packfiles and their indexes,
loose references and packed reference files.
* We can now build against OpenSSL v1.1 and against LibreSSL.
* `GIT_MERGE_OPTIONS_INIT` now includes a setting to perform rename detection.
This aligns this structure with the default by `git_merge` and
`git_merge_trees` when `NULL` was provided for the options.
* Improvements for reading index v4 files.
* Perform additional retries for filesystem operations on Windows when files
are temporarily locked by other processes.
### API additions
* New family of functions to handle worktrees:
* `git_worktree_list()` lets you look up worktrees for a repository.
* `git_worktree_lookup()` lets you get a specific worktree.
* `git_worktree_open_from_repository()` lets you get the associated worktree
of a repository.
a worktree.
* `git_worktree_add` lets you create new worktrees.
* `git_worktree_prune` lets you remove worktrees from disk.
* `git_worktree_lock()` and `git_worktree_unlock()` let you lock
respectively unlock a worktree.
* `git_repository_open_from_worktree()` lets you open a repository via
* `git_repository_head_for_worktree()` lets you get the current `HEAD` for a
linked worktree.
* `git_repository_head_detached_for_worktree()` lets you check whether a
linked worktree is in detached HEAD mode.
* `git_repository_item_path()` lets you retrieve paths for various repository
files.
* `git_repository_commondir()` lets you retrieve the common directory of a
repository.
* `git_branch_is_checked_out()` allows you to check whether a branch is checked
out in a repository or any of its worktrees.
* `git_repository_submodule_cache_all()` and
`git_repository_submodule_cache_clear()` functions allow you to prime or clear
the submodule cache of a repository.
* You can disable strict hash verifications via the
`GIT_OPT_ENABLE_STRICT_HASH_VERIFICATION` option with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
* You can enable us calling `fsync` for various files inside the ".git"
directory by setting the `GIT_OPT_ENABLE_FSYNC_GITDIR` option with
`git_libgit2_opts()`.
* You can now enable "offset deltas" when creating packfiles and negotiating
packfiles with a remote server by setting `GIT_OPT_ENABLE_OFS_DELTA` option
with `GIT_libgit2_opts()`.
* You can now set the default share mode on Windows for opening files using
`GIT_OPT_SET_WINDOWS_SHAREMODE` option with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
You can query the current share mode with `GIT_OPT_GET_WINDOWS_SHAREMODE`.
* `git_transport_smart_proxy_options()' enables you to get the proxy options for
smart transports.
* The `GIT_FILTER_INIT` macro and the `git_filter_init` function are provided
to initialize a `git_filter` structure.
### Breaking API changes
* `clone_checkout_strategy` has been removed from
`git_submodule_update_option`. The checkout strategy used to clone will
be the same strategy specified in `checkout_opts`.
v0.25
-------
### Changes or improvements
* Fix repository discovery with `git_repository_discover` and
`git_repository_open_ext` to match git's handling of a ceiling
directory at the current directory. git only checks ceiling
directories when its search ascends to a parent directory. A ceiling
directory matching the starting directory will not prevent git from
finding a repository in the starting directory or a parent directory.
* Do not fail when deleting remotes in the presence of broken
global configs which contain branches.
* Support for reading and writing git index v4 files
* Improve the performance of the revwalk and bring us closer to git's code.
* The reference db has improved support for concurrency and returns `GIT_ELOCKED`
when an operation could not be performed due to locking.
* Nanosecond resolution is now activated by default, following git's change to
do this.
* We now restrict the set of ciphers we let OpenSSL use by default.
* Users can now register their own merge drivers for use with `.gitattributes`.
The library also gained built-in support for the union merge driver.
* The default for creating references is now to validate that the object does
exist.
* Add `git_proxy_options` which is used by the different networking
implementations to let the caller specify the proxy settings instead of
relying on the environment variables.
### API additions
* You can now get the user-agent used by libgit2 using the
`GIT_OPT_GET_USER_AGENT` option with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
It is the counterpart to `GIT_OPT_SET_USER_AGENT`.
* The `GIT_OPT_SET_SSL_CIPHERS` option for `git_libgit2_opts()` lets you specify
a custom list of ciphers to use for OpenSSL.
* `git_commit_create_buffer()` creates a commit and writes it into a
user-provided buffer instead of writing it into the object db. Combine it with
`git_commit_create_with_signature()` in order to create a commit with a
cryptographic signature.
* `git_blob_create_fromstream()` and
`git_blob_create_fromstream_commit()` allow you to create a blob by
writing into a stream. Useful when you do not know the final size or
want to copy the contents from another stream.
* New flags for `git_repository_open_ext`:
* `GIT_REPOSITORY_OPEN_NO_DOTGIT` - Do not check for a repository by
appending `/.git` to the `start_path`; only open the repository if
`start_path` itself points to the git directory.
* `GIT_REPOSITORY_OPEN_FROM_ENV` - Find and open a git repository,
respecting the environment variables used by the git command-line
tools. If set, `git_repository_open_ext` will ignore the other
flags and the `ceiling_dirs` argument, and will allow a NULL
`path` to use `GIT_DIR` or search from the current directory. The
search for a repository will respect `$GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES`
and `$GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM`. The opened repository
will respect `$GIT_INDEX_FILE`, `$GIT_NAMESPACE`,
`$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY`, and `$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES`.
In the future, this flag will also cause `git_repository_open_ext`
to respect `$GIT_WORK_TREE` and `$GIT_COMMON_DIR`; currently,
`git_repository_open_ext` with this flag will error out if either
`$GIT_WORK_TREE` or `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` is set.
* `git_diff_from_buffer()` can create a `git_diff` object from the contents
of a git-style patch file.
* `git_index_version()` and `git_index_set_version()` to get and set
the index version
* `git_odb_expand_ids()` lets you check for the existence of multiple
objects at once.
* The new `git_blob_dup()`, `git_commit_dup()`, `git_tag_dup()` and
`git_tree_dup()` functions provide type-specific wrappers for
`git_object_dup()` to reduce noise and increase type safety for callers.
* `git_reference_dup()` lets you duplicate a reference to aid in ownership
management and cleanup.
* `git_signature_from_buffer()` lets you create a signature from a string in the
format that appear in objects.
* `git_tree_create_updated()` lets you create a tree based on another one
together with a list of updates. For the covered update cases, it's more
efficient than the `git_index` route.
* `git_apply_patch()` applies hunks from a `git_patch` to a buffer.
* `git_diff_to_buf()` lets you print an entire diff directory to a buffer,
similar to how `git_patch_to_buf()` works.
* `git_proxy_init_options()` is added to initialize a `git_proxy_options`
structure at run-time.
* `git_merge_driver_register()`, `git_merge_driver_unregister()` let you
register and unregister a custom merge driver to be used when `.gitattributes`
specifies it.
* `git_merge_driver_lookup()` can be used to look up a merge driver by name.
* `git_merge_driver_source_repo()`, `git_merge_driver_source_ancestor()`,
`git_merge_driver_source_ours()`, `git_merge_driver_source_theirs()`,
`git_merge_driver_source_file_options()` added as accessors to
`git_merge_driver_source`.
### API removals
* `git_blob_create_fromchunks()` has been removed in favour of
`git_blob_create_fromstream()`.
### Breaking API changes
* `git_packbuilder_object_count` and `git_packbuilder_written` now
return a `size_t` instead of a `uint32_t` for more thorough
compatibility with the rest of the library.
* `git_packbuiler_progress` now provides explicitly sized `uint32_t`
values instead of `unsigned int`.
* `git_diff_file` now includes an `id_abbrev` field that reflects the
number of nibbles set in the `id` field.
* `git_odb_backend` now has a `freshen` function pointer. This optional
function pointer is similar to the `exists` function, but it will update
a last-used marker. For filesystem-based object databases, this updates
the timestamp of the file containing the object, to indicate "freshness".
If this is `NULL`, then it will not be called and the `exists` function
will be used instead.
* `git_remote_connect()` now accepts `git_proxy_options` argument, and
`git_fetch_options` and `git_push_options` each have a `proxy_opts` field.
* `git_merge_options` now provides a `default_driver` that can be used
to provide the name of a merge driver to be used to handle files changed
during a merge.
v0.24
-------
### Changes or improvements
* Custom merge drivers can now be registered, which allows callers to
configure callbacks to honor `merge=driver` configuration in
`.gitattributes`.
* Custom filters can now be registered with wildcard attributes, for
example `filter=*`. Consumers should examine the attributes parameter
of the `check` function for details.
* Symlinks are now followed when locking a file, which can be
necessary when multiple worktrees share a base repository.
* You can now set your own user-agent to be sent for HTTP requests by
using the `GIT_OPT_SET_USER_AGENT` with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
* You can set custom HTTP header fields to be sent along with requests
by passing them in the fetch and push options.
* Tree objects are now assumed to be sorted. If a tree is not
correctly formed, it will give bad results. This is the git approach
and cuts a significant amount of time when reading the trees.
* Filter registration is now protected against concurrent
registration.
* Filenames which are not valid on Windows in an index no longer cause
to fail to parse it on that OS.
* Rebases can now be performed purely in-memory, without touching the
repository's workdir.
* When adding objects to the index, or when creating new tree or commit
objects, the inputs are validated to ensure that the dependent objects
exist and are of the correct type. This object validation can be
disabled with the GIT_OPT_ENABLE_STRICT_OBJECT_CREATION option.
* The WinHTTP transport's handling of bad credentials now behaves like
the others, asking for credentials again.
### API additions
* `git_config_lock()` has been added, which allow for
transactional/atomic complex updates to the configuration, removing
the opportunity for concurrent operations and not committing any
changes until the unlock.
* `git_diff_options` added a new callback `progress_cb` to report on the
progress of the diff as files are being compared. The documentation of
the existing callback `notify_cb` was updated to reflect that it only
gets called when new deltas are added to the diff.
* `git_fetch_options` and `git_push_options` have gained a `custom_headers`
field to set the extra HTTP header fields to send.
* `git_stream_register_tls()` lets you register a callback to be used
as the constructor for a TLS stream instead of the libgit2 built-in
one.
* `git_commit_header_field()` allows you to look up a specific header
field in a commit.
* `git_commit_extract_signature()` extracts the signature from a
commit and gives you both the signature and the signed data so you
can verify it.
### API removals
* No APIs were removed in this version.
### Breaking API changes
* The `git_merge_tree_flag_t` is now `git_merge_flag_t`. Subsequently,
its members are no longer prefixed with `GIT_MERGE_TREE_FLAG` but are
now prefixed with `GIT_MERGE_FLAG`, and the `tree_flags` field of the
`git_merge_options` structure is now named `flags`.
* The `git_merge_file_flags_t` enum is now `git_merge_file_flag_t` for
consistency with other enum type names.
* `git_cert` descendent types now have a proper `parent` member
* It is the responsibility of the refdb backend to decide what to do
with the reflog on ref deletion. The file-based backend must delete
it, a database-backed one may wish to archive it.
* `git_config_backend` has gained two entries. `lock` and `unlock`
with which to implement the transactional/atomic semantics for the
configuration backend.
* `git_index_add` and `git_index_conflict_add()` will now use the case
as provided by the caller on case insensitive systems. Previous
versions would keep the case as it existed in the index. This does
not affect the higher-level `git_index_add_bypath` or
`git_index_add_frombuffer` functions.
* The `notify_payload` field of `git_diff_options` was renamed to `payload`
to reflect that it's also the payload for the new progress callback.
* The `git_config_level_t` enum has gained a higher-priority value
`GIT_CONFIG_LEVEL_PROGRAMDATA` which represent a rough Windows equivalent
to the system level configuration.
* `git_rebase_options` now has a `merge_options` field.
* The index no longer performs locking itself. This is not something
users of the library should have been relying on as it's not part of
the concurrency guarantees.
* `git_remote_connect()` now takes a `custom_headers` argument to set
the extra HTTP header fields to send.
v0.23
------
### Changes or improvements
* Patience and minimal diff drivers can now be used for merges.
* Merges can now ignore whitespace changes.
* Updated binary identification in CRLF filtering to avoid false positives in
UTF-8 files.
* Rename and copy detection is enabled for small files.
* Checkout can now handle an initial checkout of a repository, making
`GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE_CREATE` unnecessary for users of clone.
* The signature parameter in the ref-modifying functions has been
removed. Use `git_repository_set_ident()` and
`git_repository_ident()` to override the signature to be used.
* The local transport now auto-scales the number of threads to use
when creating the packfile instead of sticking to one.
* Reference renaming now uses the right id for the old value.
* The annotated version of branch creation, HEAD detaching and reset
allow for specifying the expression from the user to be put into the
reflog.
* `git_rebase_commit` now returns `GIT_EUNMERGED` when you attempt to
commit with unstaged changes.
* On Mac OS X, we now use SecureTransport to provide the cryptographic
support for HTTPS connections insead of OpenSSL.
* Checkout can now accept an index for the baseline computations via the
`baseline_index` member.
* The configuration for fetching is no longer stored inside the
`git_remote` struct but has been moved to a `git_fetch_options`. The
remote functions now take these options or the callbacks instead of
setting them beforehand.
* `git_submodule` instances are no longer cached or shared across
lookup. Each submodule represents the configuration at the time of
loading.
* The index now uses diffs for `add_all()` and `update_all()` which
gives it a speed boost and closer semantics to git.
* The ssh transport now reports the stderr output from the server as
the error message, which allows you to get the "repository not
found" messages.
* `git_index_conflict_add()` will remove staged entries that exist for
conflicted paths.
* The flags for a `git_diff_file` will now have the `GIT_DIFF_FLAG_EXISTS`
bit set when a file exists on that side of the diff. This is useful
for understanding whether a side of the diff exists in the presence of
a conflict.
* The constructor for a write-stream into the odb now takes
`git_off_t` instead of `size_t` for the size of the blob, which
allows putting large files into the odb on 32-bit systems.
* The remote's push and pull URLs now honor the url.$URL.insteadOf
configuration. This allows modifying URL prefixes to a custom
value via gitconfig.
* `git_diff_foreach`, `git_diff_blobs`, `git_diff_blob_to_buffer`,
and `git_diff_buffers` now accept a new binary callback of type
`git_diff_binary_cb` that includes the binary diff information.
* The race condition mitigations described in `racy-git.txt` have been
implemented.
* If libcurl is installed, we will use it to connect to HTTP(S)
servers.
### API additions
* The `git_merge_options` gained a `file_flags` member.
* Parsing and retrieving a configuration value as a path is exposed
via `git_config_parse_path()` and `git_config_get_path()`
respectively.
* `git_repository_set_ident()` and `git_repository_ident()` serve to
set and query which identity will be used when writing to the
reflog.
* `git_config_entry_free()` frees a config entry.
* `git_config_get_string_buf()` provides a way to safely retrieve a
string from a non-snapshot configuration.
* `git_annotated_commit_from_revspec()` allows to get an annotated
commit from an extended sha synatx string.
* `git_repository_set_head_detached_from_annotated()`,
`git_branch_create_from_annotated()` and
`git_reset_from_annotated()` allow for the caller to provide an
annotated commit through which they can control what expression is
put into the reflog as the source/target.
* `git_index_add_frombuffer()` can now create a blob from memory
buffer and add it to the index which is attached to a repository.
* The structure `git_fetch_options` has been added to determine the
runtime configuration for fetching, such as callbacks, pruning and
autotag behaviour. It has the runtime initializer
`git_fetch_init_options()`.
* The enum `git_fetch_prune_t` has been added, letting you specify the
pruning behaviour for a fetch.
* A push operation will notify the caller of what updates it indends
to perform on the remote, which provides similar information to
git's pre-push hook.
* `git_stash_apply()` can now apply a stashed state from the stash list,
placing the data into the working directory and index.
* `git_stash_pop()` will apply a stashed state (like `git_stash_apply()`)
but will remove the stashed state after a successful application.
* A new error code `GIT_EEOF` indicates an early EOF from the
server. This typically indicates an error with the URL or
configuration of the server, and tools can use this to show messages
about failing to communicate with the server.
* A new error code `GIT_EINVALID` indicates that an argument to a
function is invalid, or an invalid operation was requested.
* `git_diff_index_to_workdir()` and `git_diff_tree_to_index()` will now
produce deltas of type `GIT_DELTA_CONFLICTED` to indicate that the index
side of the delta is a conflict.
* The `git_status` family of functions will now produce status of type
`GIT_STATUS_CONFLICTED` to indicate that a conflict exists for that file
in the index.
* `git_index_entry_is_conflict()` is a utility function to determine if
a given index entry has a non-zero stage entry, indicating that it is
one side of a conflict.
* It is now possible to pass a keypair via a buffer instead of a
path. For this, `GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_MEMORY` and
`git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new()` have been added.
* `git_filter_list_contains` will indicate whether a particular
filter will be run in the given filter list.
* `git_commit_header_field()` has been added, which allows retrieving
the contents of an arbitrary header field.
* `git_submodule_set_branch()` allows to set the configured branch for
a submodule.
### API removals
* `git_remote_save()` and `git_remote_clear_refspecs()` have been
removed. Remote's configuration is changed via the configuration
directly or through a convenience function which performs changes to
the configuration directly.
* `git_remote_set_callbacks()`, `git_remote_get_callbacks()` and
`git_remote_set_transport()` have been removed and the remote no
longer stores this configuration.
* `git_remote_set_fetch_refpecs()` and
`git_remote_set_push_refspecs()` have been removed. There is no
longer a way to set the base refspecs at run-time.
* `git_submodule_save()` has been removed. The submodules are no
longer configured via the objects.
* `git_submodule_reload_all()` has been removed as we no longer cache
submodules.
### Breaking API changes
* `git_smart_subtransport_cb` now has a `param` parameter.
* The `git_merge_options` structure member `flags` has been renamed
to `tree_flags`.
* The `git_merge_file_options` structure member `flags` is now
an unsigned int. It was previously a `git_merge_file_flags_t`.
* `GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE_CREATE` has been removed. Most users will generally
be able to switch to `GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE`, but if you require missing
file handling during checkout, you may now use `GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE |
GIT_CHECKOUT_RECREATE_MISSING`.
* The `git_clone_options` and `git_submodule_update_options`
structures no longer have a `signature` field.
* The following functions have removed the signature and/or log message
parameters in favour of git-emulating ones.
* `git_branch_create()`, `git_branch_move()`
* `git_rebase_init()`, `git_rebase_abort()`
* `git_reference_symbolic_create_matching()`,
`git_reference_symbolic_create()`, `git_reference_create()`,
`git_reference_create_matching()`,
`git_reference_symbolic_set_target()`,
`git_reference_set_target()`, `git_reference_rename()`
* `git_remote_update_tips()`, `git_remote_fetch()`, `git_remote_push()`
* `git_repository_set_head()`,
`git_repository_set_head_detached()`,
`git_repository_detach_head()`
* `git_reset()`
* `git_config_get_entry()` now gives back a ref-counted
`git_config_entry`. You must free it when you no longer need it.
* `git_config_get_string()` will return an error if used on a
non-snapshot configuration, as there can be no guarantee that the
returned pointer is valid.
* `git_note_default_ref()` now uses a `git_buf` to return the string,
as the string is otherwise not guaranteed to stay allocated.
* `git_rebase_operation_current()` will return `GIT_REBASE_NO_OPERATION`
if it is called immediately after creating a rebase session but before
you have applied the first patch.
* `git_rebase_options` now contains a `git_checkout_options` struct
that will be used for functions that modify the working directory,
namely `git_rebase_init`, `git_rebase_next` and
`git_rebase_abort`. As a result, `git_rebase_open` now also takes
a `git_rebase_options` and only the `git_rebase_init` and
`git_rebase_open` functions take a `git_rebase_options`, where they
will persist the options to subsequent `git_rebase` calls.
* The `git_clone_options` struct now has fetch options in a
`fetch_opts` field instead of remote callbacks in
`remote_callbacks`.
* The remote callbacks has gained a new member `push_negotiation`
which gets called before sending the update commands to the server.
* The following functions no longer act on a remote instance but
change the repository's configuration. Their signatures have changed
accordingly:
* `git_remote_set_url()`, `git_remote_seturl()`
* `git_remote_add_fetch()`, `git_remote_add_push()` and
* `git_remote_set_autotag()`
* `git_remote_connect()` and `git_remote_prune()` now take a pointer
to the callbacks.
* `git_remote_fetch()` and `git_remote_download()` now take a pointer
to fetch options which determine the runtime configuration.
* The `git_remote_autotag_option_t` values have been changed. It has
gained a `_UNSPECIFIED` default value to specify no override for the
configured setting.
* `git_remote_update_tips()` now takes a pointer to the callbacks as
well as a boolean whether to write `FETCH_HEAD` and the autotag
setting.
* `git_remote_create_anonymous()` no longer takes a fetch refspec as
url-only remotes cannot have configured refspecs.
* The `git_submodule_update_options` struct now has fetch options in
the `fetch_opts` field instead of callbacks in the
`remote_callbacks` field.
* The following functions no longer act on a submodule instance but
change the repository's configuration. Their signatures have changed
accordingly:
* `git_submodule_set_url()`, `git_submodule_set_ignore()`,
`git_submodule_set_update()`,
`git_submodule_set_fetch_recurse_submodules()`.
* `git_submodule_status()` no longer takes a submodule instance but a
repsitory, a submodule name and an ignore setting.
* The `push` function in the `git_transport` interface now takes a
pointer to the remote callbacks.
* The `git_index_entry` struct's fields' types have been changed to
more accurately reflect what is in fact stored in the
index. Specifically, time and file size are 32 bits intead of 64, as
these values are truncated.
* `GIT_EMERGECONFLICT` is now `GIT_ECONFLICT`, which more accurately
describes the nature of the error.
* It is no longer allowed to call `git_buf_grow()` on buffers
borrowing the memory they point to.
v0.22
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### Changes or improvements
* `git_signature_new()` now requires a non-empty email address.
* Use CommonCrypto libraries for SHA-1 calculation on Mac OS X.
* Disable SSL compression and SSLv2 and SSLv3 ciphers in favor of TLSv1
in OpenSSL.
* The fetch behavior of remotes with autotag set to `GIT_REMOTE_DOWNLOAD_TAGS_ALL`
has been changed to match git 1.9.0 and later. In this mode, libgit2 now
fetches all tags in addition to whatever else needs to be fetched.
* `git_checkout()` now handles case-changing renames correctly on
case-insensitive filesystems; for example renaming "readme" to "README".
* The search for libssh2 is now done via pkg-config instead of a
custom search of a few directories.
* Add support for core.protectHFS and core.protectNTFS. Add more
validation for filenames which we write such as references.
* The local transport now generates textual progress output like
git-upload-pack does ("counting objects").
* `git_checkout_index()` can now check out an in-memory index that is not
necessarily the repository's index, so you may check out an index
that was produced by git_merge and friends while retaining the cached
information.
* Remove the default timeout for receiving / sending data over HTTP using
the WinHTTP transport layer.
* Add SPNEGO (Kerberos) authentication using GSSAPI on Unix systems.
* Provide built-in objects for the empty blob (e69de29) and empty
tree (4b825dc) objects.
* The index' tree cache is now filled upon read-tree and write-tree
and the cache is written to disk.
* LF -> CRLF filter refuses to handle mixed-EOL files
* LF -> CRLF filter now runs when * text = auto (with Git for Windows 1.9.4)
* File unlocks are atomic again via rename. Read-only files on Windows are
made read-write if necessary.
* Share open packfiles across repositories to share descriptors and mmaps.
* Use a map for the treebuilder, making insertion O(1)
* The build system now accepts an option EMBED_SSH_PATH which when set
tells it to include a copy of libssh2 at the given location. This is
enabled for MSVC.
* Add support for refspecs with the asterisk in the middle of a
pattern.
* Fetching now performs opportunistic updates. To achieve this, we
introduce a difference between active and passive refspecs, which
make `git_remote_download()` and `git_remote_fetch()` to take a list of
resfpecs to be the active list, similarly to how git fetch accepts a
list on the command-line.
* The THREADSAFE option to build libgit2 with threading support has
been flipped to be on by default.
* The remote object has learnt to prune remote-tracking branches. If
the remote is configured to do so, this will happen via
`git_remote_fetch()`. You can also call `git_remote_prune()` after
connecting or fetching to perform the prune.
### API additions
* Introduce `git_buf_text_is_binary()` and `git_buf_text_contains_nul()` for
consumers to perform binary detection on a git_buf.
* `git_branch_upstream_remote()` has been introduced to provide the
branch.<name>.remote configuration value.
* Introduce `git_describe_commit()` and `git_describe_workdir()` to provide
a description of the current commit (and working tree, respectively)
based on the nearest tag or reference
* Introduce `git_merge_bases()` and the `git_oidarray` type to expose all
merge bases between two commits.
* Introduce `git_merge_bases_many()` to expose all merge bases between
multiple commits.
* Introduce rebase functionality (using the merge algorithm only).
Introduce `git_rebase_init()` to begin a new rebase session,
`git_rebase_open()` to open an in-progress rebase session,
`git_rebase_commit()` to commit the current rebase operation,
`git_rebase_next()` to apply the next rebase operation,
`git_rebase_abort()` to abort an in-progress rebase and `git_rebase_finish()`
to complete a rebase operation.
* Introduce `git_note_author()` and `git_note_committer()` to get the author
and committer information on a `git_note`, respectively.
* A factory function for ssh has been added which allows to change the
path of the programs to execute for receive-pack and upload-pack on
the server, `git_transport_ssh_with_paths()`.
* The ssh transport supports asking the remote host for accepted
credential types as well as multiple challeges using a single
connection. This requires to know which username you want to connect
as, so this introduces the USERNAME credential type which the ssh
transport will use to ask for the username.
* The `GIT_EPEEL` error code has been introduced when we cannot peel a tag
to the requested object type; if the given object otherwise cannot be
peeled, `GIT_EINVALIDSPEC` is returned.
* Introduce `GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_RELATIVE_GITLINK` to use relative paths
when writing gitlinks, as is used by git core for submodules.
* `git_remote_prune()` has been added. See above for description.
* Introduce reference transactions, which allow multiple references to
be locked at the same time and updates be queued. This also allows
us to safely update a reflog with arbitrary contents, as we need to
do for stash.
### API removals
* `git_remote_supported_url()` and `git_remote_is_valid_url()` have been
removed as they have become essentially useless with rsync-style ssh paths.
* `git_clone_into()` and `git_clone_local_into()` have been removed from the
public API in favour of `git_clone callbacks`.
* The option to ignore certificate errors via `git_remote_cert_check()`
is no longer present. Instead, `git_remote_callbacks` has gained a new
entry which lets the user perform their own certificate checks.
### Breaking API changes
* `git_cherry_pick()` is now `git_cherrypick()`.
* The `git_submodule_update()` function was renamed to
`git_submodule_update_strategy()`. `git_submodule_update()` is now used to
provide functionalty similar to "git submodule update".
* `git_treebuilder_create()` was renamed to `git_treebuilder_new()` to better
reflect it being a constructor rather than something which writes to
disk.
* `git_treebuilder_new()` (was `git_treebuilder_create()`) now takes a
repository so that it can query repository configuration.
Subsequently, `git_treebuilder_write()` no longer takes a repository.
* `git_threads_init()` and `git_threads_shutdown()` have been renamed to
`git_libgit2_init()` and `git_libgit2_shutdown()` to better explain what
their purpose is, as it's grown to be more than just about threads.
* `git_libgit2_init()` and `git_libgit2_shutdown()` now return the number of
initializations of the library, so consumers may schedule work on the
first initialization.
* The `git_transport_register()` function no longer takes a priority and takes
a URL scheme name (eg "http") instead of a prefix like "http://"
* `git_index_name_entrycount()` and `git_index_reuc_entrycount()` now
return size_t instead of unsigned int.
* The `context_lines` and `interhunk_lines` fields in `git_diff`_options are
now `uint32_t` instead of `uint16_t`. This allows to set them to `UINT_MAX`,
in effect asking for "infinite" context e.g. to iterate over all the
unmodified lines of a diff.
* `git_status_file()` now takes an exact path. Use `git_status_list_new()` if
pathspec searching is needed.
* `git_note_create()` has changed the position of the notes reference
name to match `git_note_remove()`.
* Rename `git_remote_load()` to `git_remote_lookup()` to bring it in line
with the rest of the lookup functions.
* `git_remote_rename()` now takes the repository and the remote's
current name. Accepting a remote indicates we want to change it,
which we only did partially. It is much clearer if we accept a name
and no loaded objects are changed.
* `git_remote_delete()` now accepts the repository and the remote's name
instead of a loaded remote.
* `git_merge_head` is now `git_annotated_commit`, to better reflect its usage
for multiple functions (including rebase)
* The `git_clone_options` struct no longer provides the `ignore_cert_errors` or
`remote_name` members for remote customization.
Instead, the `git_clone_options` struct has two new members, `remote_cb` and
`remote_cb_payload`, which allow the caller to completely override the remote
creation process. If needed, the caller can use this callback to give their
remote a name other than the default (origin) or disable cert checking.
The `remote_callbacks` member has been preserved for convenience, although it
is not used when a remote creation callback is supplied.
* The `git_clone`_options struct now provides `repository_cb` and
`repository_cb_payload` to allow the user to create a repository with
custom options.
* The `git_push` struct to perform a push has been replaced with
`git_remote_upload()`. The refspecs and options are passed as a
function argument. `git_push_update_tips()` is now also
`git_remote_update_tips()` and the callbacks are in the same struct as
the rest.
* The `git_remote_set_transport()` function now sets a transport factory function,
rather than a pre-existing transport instance.
* The `git_transport` structure definition has moved into the sys/transport.h
file.
* libgit2 no longer automatically sets the OpenSSL locking
functions. This is not something which we can know to do. A
last-resort convenience function is provided in sys/openssl.h,
`git_openssl_set_locking()` which can be used to set the locking.