Allow any well-formed reference name to live under refs/ removing the
condition that they be under refs/{heads,tags,remotes}/ as was the
design of git.
An exception is made for HEAD which is allowed to contain an OID
reference in detached HEAD state.
Allow forcing the creation or renaming of references
Add internal reference create and rename functions which take a force
parameter, telling them to overwrite an existing reference if it
exists.
These functions try to update the reference if it's of the same type
as the one it's going to be replaced by. Otherwise the old reference
becomes invalid.
- Real caching and refcounting on parsed objects
- Real caching and refcounting on objects read from the ODB
- Streaming writes & reads from the ODB
- Single-method writes for all object types
- The external API is now partially thread-safe
- Improved reference handling
- New method to list references
- ZLib is now built-in
- Improvements to the Revision Walker
- Tons of bug fixes
Thanks to all the contributors who make this possible.
Vicent Marti [Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:53:38 +0000 (23:53 +0200)]
New external API method: `git_reference_listcb`
List all the references in the repository, calling a custom
callback for each one.
The listed references may be filtered by type, or using
a bitwise OR of several types. Use the magic value
`GIT_REF_LISTALL` to obtain all references, including
packed ones.
The `callback` function will be called for each of the references
in the repository, and will receive the name of the reference and
the `payload` value passed to this method.
Jakob Pfender [Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:32:24 +0000 (15:32 +0100)]
index.c: Read index after initialization
The current behaviour of git_index_open{bare,inrepo}() is unexpected.
When an index is opened, an in-memory index object is created that is
linked to the index discovered by git_repository_open(). However, this
index object is empty, as the on-disk index is not read. To fully open
the on-disk index file, git_index_read() has to be called. This leads to
confusing behaviour. Consider the following code:
You would expect this to have no effect, as the index is never
ostensibly manipulated. However, what actually happens is that the index
entries are removed from the on-disk index because the empty in-memory
index object created by open_inrepo() is written back to the disk.
nulltoken [Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:45:01 +0000 (19:45 +0100)]
Fix gitfo_mv() behavior when running on Windows
When the system temporary folder is located on a different volume than the working directory into which libgit2 is executing, MoveFileEx() requires an additional flag.
Vicent Marti [Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:38:49 +0000 (19:38 +0200)]
I broke your bindings
Hey. Apologies in advance -- I broke your bindings.
This is a major commit that includes a long-overdue redesign of the
whole object-database structure. This is expected to be the last major
external API redesign of the library until the first non-alpha release.
Please get your bindings up to date with these changes. They will be
included in the next minor release. Sorry again!
Major features include:
- Real caching and refcounting on parsed objects
- Real caching and refcounting on objects read from the ODB
- Streaming writes & reads from the ODB
- Single-method writes for all object types
- The external API is now partially thread-safe
The speed increases are significant in all aspects, specially when
reading an object several times from the ODB (revwalking) and when
writing big objects to the ODB.
Here's a full changelog for the external API:
blob.h
------
- Remove `git_blob_new`
- Remove `git_blob_set_rawcontent`
- Remove `git_blob_set_rawcontent_fromfile`
- Rename `git_blob_writefile` -> `git_blob_create_fromfile`
- Change `git_blob_create_fromfile`:
The `path` argument is now relative to the repository's working dir
- Add `git_blob_create_frombuffer`
Vicent Marti [Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:25:44 +0000 (03:25 +0200)]
Add ZLib as a built-in dependency
I don't know if this is good or bad. This lets libgit2 compile cleanly
on any platforms without any external dependencies, but adds a little
bit of bloat...
Vicent Marti [Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:09:16 +0000 (23:09 +0200)]
Fix the retarded object interdependency system
It's no longer retarded. All object interdependencies are stored as OIDs
instead of actual objects. This should be hundreds of times faster,
specially on big repositories. Heck, who knows, maye it doesn't even
segfault -- wouldn't that be awesome?
What has changed on the API?
`git_commit_parent`, `git_commit_tree`, `git_tag_target` now return
their values through a pointer-to-pointer, and have an error code.
`git_commit_set_tree` and `git_tag_set_target` now return an error
code and may fail.
`git_repository_free__no_gc` has been deprecated because it's
stupid. Since there are no longer any interdependencies between
objects, we don't need internal reference counting, and GC
never fails or double-free's pointers.
`git_object_close` now does a very sane thing: marks an object
as unused. Closed objects will be eventually free'd from the
object cache based on LRU. Please use `git_object_close` from
the garbage collector `destroy` method on your bindings. It's
100% safe.
`git_repository_gc` is a new method that forces a garbage collector
pass through the repo, to free as many LRU objects as possible.
This is useful if we are running out of memory.
Vicent Marti [Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:06:24 +0000 (01:06 +0200)]
Rewrite the Pack backend
The new pack backend is an adaptation of the original git.git code in
`sha1_file.c`. It's slightly faster than the previous version and
severely less memory-hungry.
The call-stack of a normal pack backend query has been properly
documented in the top of the header for future reference. And by
properly I mean with ASCII diagrams 'n shit.
Vicent Marti [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:57:03 +0000 (14:57 +0200)]
Rewrite the Revision Walker
The new revision walker uses an internal Commit object storage system,
custom memory allocator and much improved topological and time sorting
algorithms. It's about 20x times faster than the previous implementation
when browsing big repositories.
The following external API calls have changed:
`git_revwalk_next` returns an OID instead of a full commit object.
The initial call to `git_revwalk_next` is no longer blocking when
iterating through a repo with a time-sorting mode.
Iterating with Topological or inverted modes still makes the initial
call blocking to preprocess the commit list, but this block should be
mostly unnoticeable on most repositories (topological preprocessing
times at 0.3s on the git.git repo).
`git_revwalk_push` and `git_revwalk_hide` now take an OID instead
of a full commit object.