libgit2/libgit2 v0.20.0

libgit2 v0.20.0 "Anmeldung"

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Apologies for the delay. This release is chunky, but you're probably used to chunky releases by now.

Full changelog follows:

Internal changes

• Added support for decomposed Unicode paths in Mac OS X
• Added support for junctions in win32
• Fixed issues with HTTP redirects in the network stack
• Performance improvements (as always)

git2/blame.h

• added full support for blame operations

git2/blob.h

• added git_blob_filtered_content to load blobs in memory with their corresponding filters applied

git2/branch.h

• added branch iterators as an alternative to the callback-based API

git2/buffer.h

• exported the git_buf struct to allow binary buffers to be passed from/to the library. This simplifies several APIs

git2/checkout.h

• implemented additional checkout options ('skip unmerged', 'use ours' and 'use theirs')

git2/clone.h

• simplified the clone API
• added new git_clone_into to clone into an existing (empty) repository

git2/commit.h

• added APIs to access the raw (uncleaned) text of a commit message

git2/common.h

• added global options to set the default paths to load templates from

git2/config.h

• added multivar iterators
• added globbing iterator
• added git_config_foreach_match to perform operations on every single var in a config file

git2/diff.h

• restructured and simplified the diff API

git2/filter.h

• added external APIs to configure and apply custom filters to checked out blobs

git2/index.h

• git_index_read can now force a reload of the index file even if it hasn't changed on-disk

git2/indexer.h

• improved the streaming indexer APIs

git2/merge.h

• added support for merge!

git2/object.h

• added helper API to lookup a generic object by path

git2/pack.h

• added progress callbacks to the packbuilder

git2/patch.h

• added support for patch generation as part of the Diff API revamp

git2/pathspec.h

• added helper APIs to work with pathspecs and match files in the workdir or diffs

git2/push.h

• added progress callbacks to push

git2/reflog.h

• changed reflog APIs to work on reference names instead of the references themselves, so they become less racy

git2/remote.h

• added support for setting refspecs on remotes, either at creation or on existing ones
• simplified the remotes API

git2/revwalk.h

• add API to simplify parents during a walk

git2/signature.h

• add helper to create a signature with the default values for a repository (i.e. the set user.name and user.email values, and the current time)

git2/submodules.h

• improve the status detection for submodules

git2/sys/

• exported many new internal APIs, such as pluggabe transport APIs

vmg, out