Three months after the previous release I am happy to present a new major version of pygit2, the Python bindings for the libgit2 library. Follows a summary with the changes.
API changes:
- New Oid type
- Changed signature of Repository.create_reference
- Reference.oid and Reference.hex removed, use Reference.target instead
- Drop del Index[path] from the API, use Index.remove(path) instead
- Drop TreeEntry.to_object
- Changed signature of Repository.checkout
- Repository.create_blob_from_file removed, use instead new methods
Repository.create_blob_fromworkdir and
Repository.create_blob_from_disk
New features:
- Add len(TreeBuilder) and TreeBuilder.get
- Add Repository.merge_base
- Support changing the head with Repository.head = refname
- Improved support for diff
- Add support for clone
- Python 2: Support hex oids as byte strings
- Add Reference.get_object
- Add Remote.save
- Add support for branches, new type Branch
Other:
- Upgraded to libgit2 0.19
- Partial documentation review
Fourteen developers have contributed to this release, including myself, and:
- Nico von Geyso
- Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño
- Bernardo Heynemann
- Rémi Duraffort
- Andrey Devyatkin
- Hervé Cauwelier
- Jiunn Haur Lim
- Richo Healey
- Carlos Martín Nieto
- David Fischer
- Fraser Tweedale
- Jun Omae
- Xu Tao
Resources:
- Download from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygit2
- Documentation at http://www.pygit2.org/
- Join us at https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2
Enjoy!
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