From 766a501fa198eb58338ac81d716bdc3fce4f761e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:22:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add news item for git-annex 8.20200810 --- doc/news/version_8.20200501.mdwn | 46 -------------------------------- doc/news/version_8.20200810.mdwn | 25 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 doc/news/version_8.20200501.mdwn create mode 100644 doc/news/version_8.20200810.mdwn diff --git a/doc/news/version_8.20200501.mdwn b/doc/news/version_8.20200501.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 736cfee708..0000000000 --- a/doc/news/version_8.20200501.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -git-annex 8.20200501 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]] -[[!toggleable text=""" - * Improve git-annex's ability to find the path to its program, - especially when it needs to run itself in another repo to upgrade it. - * adb: Better messages when the adb command is not installed. - * Sped up query commands that read the git-annex branch by around 9%. - * Various speed improvements gained by using ByteStrings for git refs and - shas. - * Fix a potential failure to parse git config. - * Support boolean git configs that are represented by the name of the - setting with no value, eg "core.bare" is the same as "core.bare = true". - * When parsing git configs, support all the documented ways to write - true and false, including "yes", "on", "1", etc. - * Fix --batch commands (and git-annex info) to accept absolute filenames - for unlocked files, which already worked for locked files. - * Avoid repeatedly opening keys db when accessing a local git remote - and -J is used. - * Avoid running a large number of git cat-file child processes when run - with a large -J value. - * Avoid running with more git check-attr and check-ignore processes than - there are CPU cores when run with a large -J value. - * get --from, move --from: When used with a local git remote, these used - to silently skip files that the location log thought were present on the - remote, when the remote actually no longer contained them. Since that - behavior could be surprising, now instead display a warning. - * external special remotes: remote.name.annex-readonly=true no longer - disables running the external special remote program. Instead, it just - makes the remote operate in a readonly mode, same as any remote. - To disable running the external special remote program, now need to set - remote.name.annex-externaltype=readonly. That is done when - git-annex enableremote is passed readonly=true. - * Stop storing readonly=true in remote.log of external special remotes; - it is a local setting only. - * sync: When some remotes to sync with are specified, and --fast is too, - pick the lowest cost of the specified remotes, do not sync with a - faster remote that was not specified. - * addurl: When run with --fast on an url that - annex.security.allowed-ip-addresses prevents accessing, display - a more useful message. - * When the required content is set to "groupwanted", use whatever - expression has been set in groupwanted as the required content of the - repo, similar to how setting required content to "standard" already - worked. - * Avoid a test suite failure when the environment does not let gpg be - tested due to eg, too long a path to the agent socket. - * test: Include testremote tests, run on a directory special remote."""]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/doc/news/version_8.20200810.mdwn b/doc/news/version_8.20200810.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b859e1bd4f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/news/version_8.20200810.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +git-annex 8.20200810 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]] +[[!toggleable text=""" + * Added support for external backend programs. So if you want a hash + that git-annex doesn't support, or something stranger, you can write a + small program to implement it. + * Fix a bug in find --branch in the previous version. + * importfeed: Fix reversion that caused some '.' in filenames to be + replaced with '\_' + * Fix a lock file descriptor leak that could occur when running commands + like git-annex add with -J. Bug was introduced as part of a different FD + leak fix in version 6.20160318. + * Fix a hang when using git-annex with an old openssh 7.2p2, which had + some weird inheriting of ssh FDs by sshd. Bug was introduced in + git-annex version 7.20200202.7. + * move, copy --to: Sped up seeking files by 2x. + * drop: Sped up seeking files to drop by 2x, and also some performance + improvements to checking numcopies. + * Deal with unusual IFS settings in the shell scripts for linux + standalone and OSX app. + Thanks, Yaroslav Halchenko + * Avoid complaining that a file with "is beyond a symbolic link" + when the filepath is absolute and the symlink in question is not + actually inside the git repository. + * Slightly sped up the linux standalone bundle. + * Support building with dlist-1.0"""]] \ No newline at end of file -- 2.30.2