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1 v0.25 + 1
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3
4 ### Changes or improvements
5
6 ### API additions
7
8 ### API removals
9
10 ### Breaking API changes
11
12 v0.25
13 -------
14
15 ### Changes or improvements
16
17 * Fix repository discovery with `git_repository_discover` and
18 `git_repository_open_ext` to match git's handling of a ceiling
19 directory at the current directory. git only checks ceiling
20 directories when its search ascends to a parent directory. A ceiling
21 directory matching the starting directory will not prevent git from
22 finding a repository in the starting directory or a parent directory.
23
24 * Do not fail when deleting remotes in the presence of broken
25 global configs which contain branches.
26
27 * Support for reading and writing git index v4 files
28
29 * Improve the performance of the revwalk and bring us closer to git's code.
30
31 * The reference db has improved support for concurrency and returns `GIT_ELOCKED`
32 when an operation could not be performed due to locking.
33
34 * Nanosecond resolution is now activated by default, following git's change to
35 do this.
36
37 * We now restrict the set of ciphers we let OpenSSL use by default.
38
39 * Users can now register their own merge drivers for use with `.gitattributes`.
40 The library also gained built-in support for the union merge driver.
41
42 * The default for creating references is now to validate that the object does
43 exist.
44
45 * Add `git_proxy_options` which is used by the different networking
46 implementations to let the caller specify the proxy settings instead of
47 relying on the environment variables.
48
49 ### API additions
50
51 * You can now get the user-agent used by libgit2 using the
52 `GIT_OPT_GET_USER_AGENT` option with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
53 It is the counterpart to `GIT_OPT_SET_USER_AGENT`.
54
55 * The `GIT_OPT_SET_SSL_CIPHERS` option for `git_libgit2_opts()` lets you specify
56 a custom list of ciphers to use for OpenSSL.
57
58 * `git_commit_create_buffer()` creates a commit and writes it into a
59 user-provided buffer instead of writing it into the object db. Combine it with
60 `git_commit_create_with_signature()` in order to create a commit with a
61 cryptographic signature.
62
63 * `git_blob_create_fromstream()` and
64 `git_blob_create_fromstream_commit()` allow you to create a blob by
65 writing into a stream. Useful when you do not know the final size or
66 want to copy the contents from another stream.
67
68 * New flags for `git_repository_open_ext`:
69
70 * `GIT_REPOSITORY_OPEN_NO_DOTGIT` - Do not check for a repository by
71 appending `/.git` to the `start_path`; only open the repository if
72 `start_path` itself points to the git directory.
73 * `GIT_REPOSITORY_OPEN_FROM_ENV` - Find and open a git repository,
74 respecting the environment variables used by the git command-line
75 tools. If set, `git_repository_open_ext` will ignore the other
76 flags and the `ceiling_dirs` argument, and will allow a NULL
77 `path` to use `GIT_DIR` or search from the current directory. The
78 search for a repository will respect `$GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES`
79 and `$GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM`. The opened repository
80 will respect `$GIT_INDEX_FILE`, `$GIT_NAMESPACE`,
81 `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY`, and `$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES`.
82 In the future, this flag will also cause `git_repository_open_ext`
83 to respect `$GIT_WORK_TREE` and `$GIT_COMMON_DIR`; currently,
84 `git_repository_open_ext` with this flag will error out if either
85 `$GIT_WORK_TREE` or `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` is set.
86
87 * `git_diff_from_buffer()` can create a `git_diff` object from the contents
88 of a git-style patch file.
89
90 * `git_index_version()` and `git_index_set_version()` to get and set
91 the index version
92
93 * `git_odb_expand_ids()` lets you check for the existence of multiple
94 objects at once.
95
96 * The new `git_blob_dup()`, `git_commit_dup()`, `git_tag_dup()` and
97 `git_tree_dup()` functions provide type-specific wrappers for
98 `git_object_dup()` to reduce noise and increase type safety for callers.
99
100 * `git_reference_dup()` lets you duplicate a reference to aid in ownership
101 management and cleanup.
102
103 * `git_signature_from_buffer()` lets you create a signature from a string in the
104 format that appear in objects.
105
106 * `git_tree_create_updated()` lets you create a tree based on another one
107 together with a list of updates. For the covered update cases, it's more
108 efficient than the `git_index` route.
109
110 * `git_apply_patch()` applies hunks from a `git_patch` to a buffer.
111
112 * `git_diff_to_buf()` lets you print an entire diff directory to a buffer,
113 similar to how `git_patch_to_buf()` works.
114
115 * `git_proxy_init_options()` is added to initialize a `git_proxy_options`
116 structure at run-time.
117
118 * `git_merge_driver_register()`, `git_merge_driver_unregister()` let you
119 register and unregister a custom merge driver to be used when `.gitattributes`
120 specifies it.
121
122 * `git_merge_driver_lookup()` can be used to look up a merge driver by name.
123
124 * `git_merge_driver_source_repo()`, `git_merge_driver_source_ancestor()`,
125 `git_merge_driver_source_ours()`, `git_merge_driver_source_theirs()`,
126 `git_merge_driver_source_file_options()` added as accessors to
127 `git_merge_driver_source`.
128
129 ### API removals
130
131 * `git_blob_create_fromchunks()` has been removed in favour of
132 `git_blob_create_fromstream()`.
133
134 ### Breaking API changes
135
136 * `git_packbuilder_object_count` and `git_packbuilder_written` now
137 return a `size_t` instead of a `uint32_t` for more thorough
138 compatibility with the rest of the library.
139
140 * `git_packbuiler_progress` now provides explicitly sized `uint32_t`
141 values instead of `unsigned int`.
142
143 * `git_diff_file` now includes an `id_abbrev` field that reflects the
144 number of nibbles set in the `id` field.
145
146 * `git_odb_backend` now has a `freshen` function pointer. This optional
147 function pointer is similar to the `exists` function, but it will update
148 a last-used marker. For filesystem-based object databases, this updates
149 the timestamp of the file containing the object, to indicate "freshness".
150 If this is `NULL`, then it will not be called and the `exists` function
151 will be used instead.
152
153 * `git_remote_connect()` now accepts `git_proxy_options` argument, and
154 `git_fetch_options` and `git_push_options` each have a `proxy_opts` field.
155
156 * `git_merge_options` now provides a `default_driver` that can be used
157 to provide the name of a merge driver to be used to handle files changed
158 during a merge.
159
160 v0.24
161 -------
162
163 ### Changes or improvements
164
165 * Custom merge drivers can now be registered, which allows callers to
166 configure callbacks to honor `merge=driver` configuration in
167 `.gitattributes`.
168
169 * Custom filters can now be registered with wildcard attributes, for
170 example `filter=*`. Consumers should examine the attributes parameter
171 of the `check` function for details.
172
173 * Symlinks are now followed when locking a file, which can be
174 necessary when multiple worktrees share a base repository.
175
176 * You can now set your own user-agent to be sent for HTTP requests by
177 using the `GIT_OPT_SET_USER_AGENT` with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
178
179 * You can set custom HTTP header fields to be sent along with requests
180 by passing them in the fetch and push options.
181
182 * Tree objects are now assumed to be sorted. If a tree is not
183 correctly formed, it will give bad results. This is the git approach
184 and cuts a significant amount of time when reading the trees.
185
186 * Filter registration is now protected against concurrent
187 registration.
188
189 * Filenames which are not valid on Windows in an index no longer cause
190 to fail to parse it on that OS.
191
192 * Rebases can now be performed purely in-memory, without touching the
193 repository's workdir.
194
195 * When adding objects to the index, or when creating new tree or commit
196 objects, the inputs are validated to ensure that the dependent objects
197 exist and are of the correct type. This object validation can be
198 disabled with the GIT_OPT_ENABLE_STRICT_OBJECT_CREATION option.
199
200 * The WinHTTP transport's handling of bad credentials now behaves like
201 the others, asking for credentials again.
202
203 ### API additions
204
205 * `git_config_lock()` has been added, which allow for
206 transactional/atomic complex updates to the configuration, removing
207 the opportunity for concurrent operations and not committing any
208 changes until the unlock.
209
210 * `git_diff_options` added a new callback `progress_cb` to report on the
211 progress of the diff as files are being compared. The documentation of
212 the existing callback `notify_cb` was updated to reflect that it only
213 gets called when new deltas are added to the diff.
214
215 * `git_fetch_options` and `git_push_options` have gained a `custom_headers`
216 field to set the extra HTTP header fields to send.
217
218 * `git_stream_register_tls()` lets you register a callback to be used
219 as the constructor for a TLS stream instead of the libgit2 built-in
220 one.
221
222 * `git_commit_header_field()` allows you to look up a specific header
223 field in a commit.
224
225 * `git_commit_extract_signature()` extracts the signature from a
226 commit and gives you both the signature and the signed data so you
227 can verify it.
228
229 ### API removals
230
231 * No APIs were removed in this version.
232
233 ### Breaking API changes
234
235 * The `git_merge_tree_flag_t` is now `git_merge_flag_t`. Subsequently,
236 its members are no longer prefixed with `GIT_MERGE_TREE_FLAG` but are
237 now prefixed with `GIT_MERGE_FLAG`, and the `tree_flags` field of the
238 `git_merge_options` structure is now named `flags`.
239
240 * The `git_merge_file_flags_t` enum is now `git_merge_file_flag_t` for
241 consistency with other enum type names.
242
243 * `git_cert` descendent types now have a proper `parent` member
244
245 * It is the responsibility of the refdb backend to decide what to do
246 with the reflog on ref deletion. The file-based backend must delete
247 it, a database-backed one may wish to archive it.
248
249 * `git_config_backend` has gained two entries. `lock` and `unlock`
250 with which to implement the transactional/atomic semantics for the
251 configuration backend.
252
253 * `git_index_add` and `git_index_conflict_add()` will now use the case
254 as provided by the caller on case insensitive systems. Previous
255 versions would keep the case as it existed in the index. This does
256 not affect the higher-level `git_index_add_bypath` or
257 `git_index_add_frombuffer` functions.
258
259 * The `notify_payload` field of `git_diff_options` was renamed to `payload`
260 to reflect that it's also the payload for the new progress callback.
261
262 * The `git_config_level_t` enum has gained a higher-priority value
263 `GIT_CONFIG_LEVEL_PROGRAMDATA` which represent a rough Windows equivalent
264 to the system level configuration.
265
266 * `git_rebase_options` now has a `merge_options` field.
267
268 * The index no longer performs locking itself. This is not something
269 users of the library should have been relying on as it's not part of
270 the concurrency guarantees.
271
272 * `git_remote_connect()` now takes a `custom_headers` argument to set
273 the extra HTTP header fields to send.
274
275 v0.23
276 ------
277
278 ### Changes or improvements
279
280 * Patience and minimal diff drivers can now be used for merges.
281
282 * Merges can now ignore whitespace changes.
283
284 * Updated binary identification in CRLF filtering to avoid false positives in
285 UTF-8 files.
286
287 * Rename and copy detection is enabled for small files.
288
289 * Checkout can now handle an initial checkout of a repository, making
290 `GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE_CREATE` unnecessary for users of clone.
291
292 * The signature parameter in the ref-modifying functions has been
293 removed. Use `git_repository_set_ident()` and
294 `git_repository_ident()` to override the signature to be used.
295
296 * The local transport now auto-scales the number of threads to use
297 when creating the packfile instead of sticking to one.
298
299 * Reference renaming now uses the right id for the old value.
300
301 * The annotated version of branch creation, HEAD detaching and reset
302 allow for specifying the expression from the user to be put into the
303 reflog.
304
305 * `git_rebase_commit` now returns `GIT_EUNMERGED` when you attempt to
306 commit with unstaged changes.
307
308 * On Mac OS X, we now use SecureTransport to provide the cryptographic
309 support for HTTPS connections insead of OpenSSL.
310
311 * Checkout can now accept an index for the baseline computations via the
312 `baseline_index` member.
313
314 * The configuration for fetching is no longer stored inside the
315 `git_remote` struct but has been moved to a `git_fetch_options`. The
316 remote functions now take these options or the callbacks instead of
317 setting them beforehand.
318
319 * `git_submodule` instances are no longer cached or shared across
320 lookup. Each submodule represents the configuration at the time of
321 loading.
322
323 * The index now uses diffs for `add_all()` and `update_all()` which
324 gives it a speed boost and closer semantics to git.
325
326 * The ssh transport now reports the stderr output from the server as
327 the error message, which allows you to get the "repository not
328 found" messages.
329
330 * `git_index_conflict_add()` will remove staged entries that exist for
331 conflicted paths.
332
333 * The flags for a `git_diff_file` will now have the `GIT_DIFF_FLAG_EXISTS`
334 bit set when a file exists on that side of the diff. This is useful
335 for understanding whether a side of the diff exists in the presence of
336 a conflict.
337
338 * The constructor for a write-stream into the odb now takes
339 `git_off_t` instead of `size_t` for the size of the blob, which
340 allows putting large files into the odb on 32-bit systems.
341
342 * The remote's push and pull URLs now honor the url.$URL.insteadOf
343 configuration. This allows modifying URL prefixes to a custom
344 value via gitconfig.
345
346 * `git_diff_foreach`, `git_diff_blobs`, `git_diff_blob_to_buffer`,
347 and `git_diff_buffers` now accept a new binary callback of type
348 `git_diff_binary_cb` that includes the binary diff information.
349
350 * The race condition mitigations described in `racy-git.txt` have been
351 implemented.
352
353 * If libcurl is installed, we will use it to connect to HTTP(S)
354 servers.
355
356 ### API additions
357
358 * The `git_merge_options` gained a `file_flags` member.
359
360 * Parsing and retrieving a configuration value as a path is exposed
361 via `git_config_parse_path()` and `git_config_get_path()`
362 respectively.
363
364 * `git_repository_set_ident()` and `git_repository_ident()` serve to
365 set and query which identity will be used when writing to the
366 reflog.
367
368 * `git_config_entry_free()` frees a config entry.
369
370 * `git_config_get_string_buf()` provides a way to safely retrieve a
371 string from a non-snapshot configuration.
372
373 * `git_annotated_commit_from_revspec()` allows to get an annotated
374 commit from an extended sha synatx string.
375
376 * `git_repository_set_head_detached_from_annotated()`,
377 `git_branch_create_from_annotated()` and
378 `git_reset_from_annotated()` allow for the caller to provide an
379 annotated commit through which they can control what expression is
380 put into the reflog as the source/target.
381
382 * `git_index_add_frombuffer()` can now create a blob from memory
383 buffer and add it to the index which is attached to a repository.
384
385 * The structure `git_fetch_options` has been added to determine the
386 runtime configuration for fetching, such as callbacks, pruning and
387 autotag behaviour. It has the runtime initializer
388 `git_fetch_init_options()`.
389
390 * The enum `git_fetch_prune_t` has been added, letting you specify the
391 pruning behaviour for a fetch.
392
393 * A push operation will notify the caller of what updates it indends
394 to perform on the remote, which provides similar information to
395 git's pre-push hook.
396
397 * `git_stash_apply()` can now apply a stashed state from the stash list,
398 placing the data into the working directory and index.
399
400 * `git_stash_pop()` will apply a stashed state (like `git_stash_apply()`)
401 but will remove the stashed state after a successful application.
402
403 * A new error code `GIT_EEOF` indicates an early EOF from the
404 server. This typically indicates an error with the URL or
405 configuration of the server, and tools can use this to show messages
406 about failing to communicate with the server.
407
408 * A new error code `GIT_EINVALID` indicates that an argument to a
409 function is invalid, or an invalid operation was requested.
410
411 * `git_diff_index_to_workdir()` and `git_diff_tree_to_index()` will now
412 produce deltas of type `GIT_DELTA_CONFLICTED` to indicate that the index
413 side of the delta is a conflict.
414
415 * The `git_status` family of functions will now produce status of type
416 `GIT_STATUS_CONFLICTED` to indicate that a conflict exists for that file
417 in the index.
418
419 * `git_index_entry_is_conflict()` is a utility function to determine if
420 a given index entry has a non-zero stage entry, indicating that it is
421 one side of a conflict.
422
423 * It is now possible to pass a keypair via a buffer instead of a
424 path. For this, `GIT_CREDTYPE_SSH_MEMORY` and
425 `git_cred_ssh_key_memory_new()` have been added.
426
427 * `git_filter_list_contains` will indicate whether a particular
428 filter will be run in the given filter list.
429
430 * `git_commit_header_field()` has been added, which allows retrieving
431 the contents of an arbitrary header field.
432
433 * `git_submodule_set_branch()` allows to set the configured branch for
434 a submodule.
435
436 ### API removals
437
438 * `git_remote_save()` and `git_remote_clear_refspecs()` have been
439 removed. Remote's configuration is changed via the configuration
440 directly or through a convenience function which performs changes to
441 the configuration directly.
442
443 * `git_remote_set_callbacks()`, `git_remote_get_callbacks()` and
444 `git_remote_set_transport()` have been removed and the remote no
445 longer stores this configuration.
446
447 * `git_remote_set_fetch_refpecs()` and
448 `git_remote_set_push_refspecs()` have been removed. There is no
449 longer a way to set the base refspecs at run-time.
450
451 * `git_submodule_save()` has been removed. The submodules are no
452 longer configured via the objects.
453
454 * `git_submodule_reload_all()` has been removed as we no longer cache
455 submodules.
456
457 ### Breaking API changes
458
459 * `git_smart_subtransport_cb` now has a `param` parameter.
460
461 * The `git_merge_options` structure member `flags` has been renamed
462 to `tree_flags`.
463
464 * The `git_merge_file_options` structure member `flags` is now
465 an unsigned int. It was previously a `git_merge_file_flags_t`.
466
467 * `GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE_CREATE` has been removed. Most users will generally
468 be able to switch to `GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE`, but if you require missing
469 file handling during checkout, you may now use `GIT_CHECKOUT_SAFE |
470 GIT_CHECKOUT_RECREATE_MISSING`.
471
472 * The `git_clone_options` and `git_submodule_update_options`
473 structures no longer have a `signature` field.
474
475 * The following functions have removed the signature and/or log message
476 parameters in favour of git-emulating ones.
477
478 * `git_branch_create()`, `git_branch_move()`
479 * `git_rebase_init()`, `git_rebase_abort()`
480 * `git_reference_symbolic_create_matching()`,
481 `git_reference_symbolic_create()`, `git_reference_create()`,
482 `git_reference_create_matching()`,
483 `git_reference_symbolic_set_target()`,
484 `git_reference_set_target()`, `git_reference_rename()`
485 * `git_remote_update_tips()`, `git_remote_fetch()`, `git_remote_push()`
486 * `git_repository_set_head()`,
487 `git_repository_set_head_detached()`,
488 `git_repository_detach_head()`
489 * `git_reset()`
490
491 * `git_config_get_entry()` now gives back a ref-counted
492 `git_config_entry`. You must free it when you no longer need it.
493
494 * `git_config_get_string()` will return an error if used on a
495 non-snapshot configuration, as there can be no guarantee that the
496 returned pointer is valid.
497
498 * `git_note_default_ref()` now uses a `git_buf` to return the string,
499 as the string is otherwise not guaranteed to stay allocated.
500
501 * `git_rebase_operation_current()` will return `GIT_REBASE_NO_OPERATION`
502 if it is called immediately after creating a rebase session but before
503 you have applied the first patch.
504
505 * `git_rebase_options` now contains a `git_checkout_options` struct
506 that will be used for functions that modify the working directory,
507 namely `git_rebase_init`, `git_rebase_next` and
508 `git_rebase_abort`. As a result, `git_rebase_open` now also takes
509 a `git_rebase_options` and only the `git_rebase_init` and
510 `git_rebase_open` functions take a `git_rebase_options`, where they
511 will persist the options to subsequent `git_rebase` calls.
512
513 * The `git_clone_options` struct now has fetch options in a
514 `fetch_opts` field instead of remote callbacks in
515 `remote_callbacks`.
516
517 * The remote callbacks has gained a new member `push_negotiation`
518 which gets called before sending the update commands to the server.
519
520 * The following functions no longer act on a remote instance but
521 change the repository's configuration. Their signatures have changed
522 accordingly:
523
524 * `git_remote_set_url()`, `git_remote_seturl()`
525 * `git_remote_add_fetch()`, `git_remote_add_push()` and
526 * `git_remote_set_autotag()`
527
528 * `git_remote_connect()` and `git_remote_prune()` now take a pointer
529 to the callbacks.
530
531 * `git_remote_fetch()` and `git_remote_download()` now take a pointer
532 to fetch options which determine the runtime configuration.
533
534 * The `git_remote_autotag_option_t` values have been changed. It has
535 gained a `_UNSPECIFIED` default value to specify no override for the
536 configured setting.
537
538 * `git_remote_update_tips()` now takes a pointer to the callbacks as
539 well as a boolean whether to write `FETCH_HEAD` and the autotag
540 setting.
541
542 * `git_remote_create_anonymous()` no longer takes a fetch refspec as
543 url-only remotes cannot have configured refspecs.
544
545 * The `git_submodule_update_options` struct now has fetch options in
546 the `fetch_opts` field instead of callbacks in the
547 `remote_callbacks` field.
548
549 * The following functions no longer act on a submodule instance but
550 change the repository's configuration. Their signatures have changed
551 accordingly:
552
553 * `git_submodule_set_url()`, `git_submodule_set_ignore()`,
554 `git_submodule_set_update()`,
555 `git_submodule_set_fetch_recurse_submodules()`.
556
557 * `git_submodule_status()` no longer takes a submodule instance but a
558 repsitory, a submodule name and an ignore setting.
559
560 * The `push` function in the `git_transport` interface now takes a
561 pointer to the remote callbacks.
562
563 * The `git_index_entry` struct's fields' types have been changed to
564 more accurately reflect what is in fact stored in the
565 index. Specifically, time and file size are 32 bits intead of 64, as
566 these values are truncated.
567
568 * `GIT_EMERGECONFLICT` is now `GIT_ECONFLICT`, which more accurately
569 describes the nature of the error.
570
571 * It is no longer allowed to call `git_buf_grow()` on buffers
572 borrowing the memory they point to.
573
574 v0.22
575 ------
576
577 ### Changes or improvements
578
579 * `git_signature_new()` now requires a non-empty email address.
580
581 * Use CommonCrypto libraries for SHA-1 calculation on Mac OS X.
582
583 * Disable SSL compression and SSLv2 and SSLv3 ciphers in favor of TLSv1
584 in OpenSSL.
585
586 * The fetch behavior of remotes with autotag set to `GIT_REMOTE_DOWNLOAD_TAGS_ALL`
587 has been changed to match git 1.9.0 and later. In this mode, libgit2 now
588 fetches all tags in addition to whatever else needs to be fetched.
589
590 * `git_checkout()` now handles case-changing renames correctly on
591 case-insensitive filesystems; for example renaming "readme" to "README".
592
593 * The search for libssh2 is now done via pkg-config instead of a
594 custom search of a few directories.
595
596 * Add support for core.protectHFS and core.protectNTFS. Add more
597 validation for filenames which we write such as references.
598
599 * The local transport now generates textual progress output like
600 git-upload-pack does ("counting objects").
601
602 * `git_checkout_index()` can now check out an in-memory index that is not
603 necessarily the repository's index, so you may check out an index
604 that was produced by git_merge and friends while retaining the cached
605 information.
606
607 * Remove the default timeout for receiving / sending data over HTTP using
608 the WinHTTP transport layer.
609
610 * Add SPNEGO (Kerberos) authentication using GSSAPI on Unix systems.
611
612 * Provide built-in objects for the empty blob (e69de29) and empty
613 tree (4b825dc) objects.
614
615 * The index' tree cache is now filled upon read-tree and write-tree
616 and the cache is written to disk.
617
618 * LF -> CRLF filter refuses to handle mixed-EOL files
619
620 * LF -> CRLF filter now runs when * text = auto (with Git for Windows 1.9.4)
621
622 * File unlocks are atomic again via rename. Read-only files on Windows are
623 made read-write if necessary.
624
625 * Share open packfiles across repositories to share descriptors and mmaps.
626
627 * Use a map for the treebuilder, making insertion O(1)
628
629 * The build system now accepts an option EMBED_SSH_PATH which when set
630 tells it to include a copy of libssh2 at the given location. This is
631 enabled for MSVC.
632
633 * Add support for refspecs with the asterisk in the middle of a
634 pattern.
635
636 * Fetching now performs opportunistic updates. To achieve this, we
637 introduce a difference between active and passive refspecs, which
638 make `git_remote_download()` and `git_remote_fetch()` to take a list of
639 resfpecs to be the active list, similarly to how git fetch accepts a
640 list on the command-line.
641
642 * The THREADSAFE option to build libgit2 with threading support has
643 been flipped to be on by default.
644
645 * The remote object has learnt to prune remote-tracking branches. If
646 the remote is configured to do so, this will happen via
647 `git_remote_fetch()`. You can also call `git_remote_prune()` after
648 connecting or fetching to perform the prune.
649
650
651 ### API additions
652
653 * Introduce `git_buf_text_is_binary()` and `git_buf_text_contains_nul()` for
654 consumers to perform binary detection on a git_buf.
655
656 * `git_branch_upstream_remote()` has been introduced to provide the
657 branch.<name>.remote configuration value.
658
659 * Introduce `git_describe_commit()` and `git_describe_workdir()` to provide
660 a description of the current commit (and working tree, respectively)
661 based on the nearest tag or reference
662
663 * Introduce `git_merge_bases()` and the `git_oidarray` type to expose all
664 merge bases between two commits.
665
666 * Introduce `git_merge_bases_many()` to expose all merge bases between
667 multiple commits.
668
669 * Introduce rebase functionality (using the merge algorithm only).
670 Introduce `git_rebase_init()` to begin a new rebase session,
671 `git_rebase_open()` to open an in-progress rebase session,
672 `git_rebase_commit()` to commit the current rebase operation,
673 `git_rebase_next()` to apply the next rebase operation,
674 `git_rebase_abort()` to abort an in-progress rebase and `git_rebase_finish()`
675 to complete a rebase operation.
676
677 * Introduce `git_note_author()` and `git_note_committer()` to get the author
678 and committer information on a `git_note`, respectively.
679
680 * A factory function for ssh has been added which allows to change the
681 path of the programs to execute for receive-pack and upload-pack on
682 the server, `git_transport_ssh_with_paths()`.
683
684 * The ssh transport supports asking the remote host for accepted
685 credential types as well as multiple challeges using a single
686 connection. This requires to know which username you want to connect
687 as, so this introduces the USERNAME credential type which the ssh
688 transport will use to ask for the username.
689
690 * The `GIT_EPEEL` error code has been introduced when we cannot peel a tag
691 to the requested object type; if the given object otherwise cannot be
692 peeled, `GIT_EINVALIDSPEC` is returned.
693
694 * Introduce `GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_RELATIVE_GITLINK` to use relative paths
695 when writing gitlinks, as is used by git core for submodules.
696
697 * `git_remote_prune()` has been added. See above for description.
698
699
700 * Introduce reference transactions, which allow multiple references to
701 be locked at the same time and updates be queued. This also allows
702 us to safely update a reflog with arbitrary contents, as we need to
703 do for stash.
704
705 ### API removals
706
707 * `git_remote_supported_url()` and `git_remote_is_valid_url()` have been
708 removed as they have become essentially useless with rsync-style ssh paths.
709
710 * `git_clone_into()` and `git_clone_local_into()` have been removed from the
711 public API in favour of `git_clone callbacks`.
712
713 * The option to ignore certificate errors via `git_remote_cert_check()`
714 is no longer present. Instead, `git_remote_callbacks` has gained a new
715 entry which lets the user perform their own certificate checks.
716
717 ### Breaking API changes
718
719 * `git_cherry_pick()` is now `git_cherrypick()`.
720
721 * The `git_submodule_update()` function was renamed to
722 `git_submodule_update_strategy()`. `git_submodule_update()` is now used to
723 provide functionalty similar to "git submodule update".
724
725 * `git_treebuilder_create()` was renamed to `git_treebuilder_new()` to better
726 reflect it being a constructor rather than something which writes to
727 disk.
728
729 * `git_treebuilder_new()` (was `git_treebuilder_create()`) now takes a
730 repository so that it can query repository configuration.
731 Subsequently, `git_treebuilder_write()` no longer takes a repository.
732
733 * `git_threads_init()` and `git_threads_shutdown()` have been renamed to
734 `git_libgit2_init()` and `git_libgit2_shutdown()` to better explain what
735 their purpose is, as it's grown to be more than just about threads.
736
737 * `git_libgit2_init()` and `git_libgit2_shutdown()` now return the number of
738 initializations of the library, so consumers may schedule work on the
739 first initialization.
740
741 * The `git_transport_register()` function no longer takes a priority and takes
742 a URL scheme name (eg "http") instead of a prefix like "http://"
743
744 * `git_index_name_entrycount()` and `git_index_reuc_entrycount()` now
745 return size_t instead of unsigned int.
746
747 * The `context_lines` and `interhunk_lines` fields in `git_diff`_options are
748 now `uint32_t` instead of `uint16_t`. This allows to set them to `UINT_MAX`,
749 in effect asking for "infinite" context e.g. to iterate over all the
750 unmodified lines of a diff.
751
752 * `git_status_file()` now takes an exact path. Use `git_status_list_new()` if
753 pathspec searching is needed.
754
755 * `git_note_create()` has changed the position of the notes reference
756 name to match `git_note_remove()`.
757
758 * Rename `git_remote_load()` to `git_remote_lookup()` to bring it in line
759 with the rest of the lookup functions.
760
761 * `git_remote_rename()` now takes the repository and the remote's
762 current name. Accepting a remote indicates we want to change it,
763 which we only did partially. It is much clearer if we accept a name
764 and no loaded objects are changed.
765
766 * `git_remote_delete()` now accepts the repository and the remote's name
767 instead of a loaded remote.
768
769 * `git_merge_head` is now `git_annotated_commit`, to better reflect its usage
770 for multiple functions (including rebase)
771
772 * The `git_clone_options` struct no longer provides the `ignore_cert_errors` or
773 `remote_name` members for remote customization.
774
775 Instead, the `git_clone_options` struct has two new members, `remote_cb` and
776 `remote_cb_payload`, which allow the caller to completely override the remote
777 creation process. If needed, the caller can use this callback to give their
778 remote a name other than the default (origin) or disable cert checking.
779
780 The `remote_callbacks` member has been preserved for convenience, although it
781 is not used when a remote creation callback is supplied.
782
783 * The `git_clone`_options struct now provides `repository_cb` and
784 `repository_cb_payload` to allow the user to create a repository with
785 custom options.
786
787 * The `git_push` struct to perform a push has been replaced with
788 `git_remote_upload()`. The refspecs and options are passed as a
789 function argument. `git_push_update_tips()` is now also
790 `git_remote_update_tips()` and the callbacks are in the same struct as
791 the rest.
792
793 * The `git_remote_set_transport()` function now sets a transport factory function,
794 rather than a pre-existing transport instance.
795
796 * The `git_transport` structure definition has moved into the sys/transport.h
797 file.
798
799 * libgit2 no longer automatically sets the OpenSSL locking
800 functions. This is not something which we can know to do. A
801 last-resort convenience function is provided in sys/openssl.h,
802 `git_openssl_set_locking()` which can be used to set the locking.