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| tagger | Vicent Martí <tanoku@gmail.com> | Sun Feb 05 17:15:21 2012 +0100 |
| object | 242a1cea8d66d9ec185044f345b22fec1940178f |
libgit2 v0.16.0
| commit | 242a1cea8d66d9ec185044f345b22fec1940178f | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Vicent Martí <tanoku@gmail.com> | Sun Feb 05 16:29:12 2012 +0100 |
| committer | Vicent Martí <tanoku@gmail.com> | Sun Feb 05 17:14:14 2012 +0100 |
| tree | e23bfaf1610911e0457a7ae98d2603b3760405aa | |
| parent | 199b7d940d723f230ad876c852aa2c0d6a5e2789 [diff] |
libgit2 v0.16.0 "Dutch Fries" This lovely and much delayed release of libgit2 ships from the cold city of Brussels, which is currently hosting FOSDEM 2012. There's been plenty of changes since the latest stable release, here's a full summary: - Git Attributes support (see git2/attr.h) There is now support to efficiently parse and retrieve information from `.gitattribute` files in a repository. Note that this information is not yet used e.g. when checking out files. - .gitignore support Likewise, all the operations that are affected by `.gitignore` files now take into account the global, user and local ignores when skipping the relevant files. - Cleanup of the object ownership semantics The ownership semantics for all repository subparts (index, odb, config files, etc) has been redesigned. All these objects are now reference counted, and can be hot-swapped in the middle of execution, allowing for instance to add a working directory and an index to a repository that was previously opened as bare, or to change the source of the ODB objects after initialization. Consequently, the repository API has been simplified to remove all the `_openX` calls that allowed setting these subparts *before* initialization. - git_index_read_tree() Git trees can now be read into the index. - More reflog functionality The reference log has been optimized, and new API calls to rename and delete the logs for a reference have been added. - Rewrite of the References code with explicit ownership semantics The references code has been mostly rewritten to take into account the cases where another Git application was modifying a repository's references while the Library was running. References are now explicitly loaded and free'd by the user, and they may be reloaded in the middle of execution if the user suspects that their values may have changed on disk. Despite the new ownership semantics, the references API stays the same. - Simplified the Remotes API Some of the more complex Remote calls have been refactored into higher level ones, to facilitate the usual `fetch` workflow of a repository. - Greatly improved thread-safety The library no longer has race conditions when loading objects from the same ODB and different threads at the same time. There's now full TLS support, even for error codes. When the library is built with `THREADSAFE=1`, the threading support must be globally initialized before it can be used (see `git_threads_init()`) - Tree walking API A new API can recursively traverse trees and subtrees issuing callbacks for every single entry. - Tree diff API There is basic support for diff'ing an index against two trees. - Improved windows support The Library is now codepage aware under Windows32: new API calls allow the user to set the default codepage for the OS in order to avoid strange Unicode errors.
libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language with bindings.
libgit2 is licensed under a very permissive license (GPLv2 with a special Linking Exception). This basically means that you can link it (unmodified) with any kind of software without having to release its source code.
libgit2 is already very usable.
libgit2 builds cleanly on most platforms without any external dependencies. Under Unix-like systems, like Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X, libgit2 expects pthreads to be available; they should be installed by default on all systems. Under Windows, libgit2 uses the native Windows API for threading.
The libgit2 library is built using CMake 2.6+ (http://www.cmake.org) on all platforms.
On most systems you can build the library using the following commands
$ mkdir build && cd build $ cmake .. $ cmake --build .
Alternatively you can point the CMake GUI tool to the CMakeLists.txt file and generate platform specific build project or IDE workspace.
To install the library you can specify the install prefix by setting:
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install/prefix $ cmake --build . --target install
If you want to build a universal binary for Mac OS X, CMake sets it all up for you if you use -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="i386;x86_64" when configuring.
For more advanced use or questions about CMake please read http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ.
The following CMake variables are declared:
INSTALL_BIN: Where to install binaries to.INSTALL_LIB: Where to install libraries to.INSTALL_INC: Where to install headers to.BUILD_SHARED_LIBS: Build libgit2 as a Shared Library (defaults to ON)BUILD_TESTS: Build the libgit2 test suite (defaults to ON)THREADSAFE: Build libgit2 with threading support (defaults to OFF)Here are the bindings to libgit2 that are currently available:
If you start another language binding to libgit2, please let us know so we can add it to the list.
Fork libgit2/libgit2 on GitHub, add your improvement, push it to a branch in your fork named for the topic, send a pull request.
You can also file bugs or feature requests under the libgit2 project on GitHub, or join us on the mailing list by sending an email to:
libgit2 is under GPL2 with linking exemption. This means you can link to the library with any program, commercial, open source or other. However, you cannot modify libgit2 and distribute it without supplying the source.
See the COPYING file for the full license text.