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diff --git a/doc/news/version_6.20160114.mdwn b/doc/news/version_6.20160114.mdwn index 7cdb06944..f6ba0ebcf 100644 --- a/doc/news/version_6.20160114.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/version_6.20160114.mdwn @@ -1,58 +1,59 @@ git-annex 6.20160114 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]] [[!toggleable text=""" - "hexapodia as the key insight" - * Added v6 repository mode, but v5 is still the default for now. - * unlock, lock: In v6 mode, unlocking a file changes it from a symlink to a - pointer file, and this change can be committed to the git repository. - For details, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/unlocked\_files/ - * The upgrade to version 6 is not done fully automatically yet, because - upgrading a direct mode repository to version 6 will prevent old - versions of git-annex from working in other clones of that repository. - For details, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/upgrades/ - * init: --version parameter added to control which supported repository - version to use. - * init, upgrade: Configure .git/info/attributes to use git-annex - as a smudge filter. In v6 repository mode, this makes git add - add files to the annex in unlocked mode, unless overridden by - annex.largefiles configuration. - * assistant: In v6 mode, adds files in unlocked mode, so they can - continue to be modified. - * Added annex.thin setting, which makes unlocked files in v6 repositories - be hard linked to their content, instead of a copy. This saves disk - space but means any modification of an unlocked file will lose the local - (and possibly only) copy of the old version. - * Enable annex.thin by default on upgrade from direct mode to v6, since - direct mode made the same tradeoff. - * fix: Adjusts unlocked files as configured by annex.thin. - * persistent-sqlite is now a hard build dependency, since v6 repository - mode needs it. - * status: On crippled filesystems, was displaying M for all annexed files - that were present. Probably caused by a change to what git status - displays in this situation. Fixed by treating files git thinks are - modified the same as typechanged files. - * addurl: Added --batch and --with-files options. - * addurl: Support --json, particularly useful in --batch mode. - * addurl: Refuse to overwrite any existing, non-annexed file. - * Debian: Adjust build dependencies for webapp, DAV. Now available on - mips, mipsel, but temporarily removed armel since build is failing - there. - * info: Fix "backend usage" numbers, which were counting present keys - twice. - * info --json: Improve json for "backend usage", using a nested object - with fields for each backend instead of the previous weird nested lists. - This may break existing parsers of this json output, if there were any. - * whereis --json: Make url list be included in machine-parseable form. - * test: Added --keep-failures option. - * unused: Bug fix when a new file was added to the annex, and then - removed (but not git rmed). git still has the add staged in this case, - so the content should not be unused and was wrongly treated as such. - * migrate: Copy over metadata to new key. - * rekey: No longer copies over urls from the old to the new key. - It makes sense for migrate to do that, but not for this low-level - (and little used) plumbing command to. - * view: Fix crash in non-unicode capable locale when entering a view - of metadata containing a slash or backslash. - * When annex.http-headers is used to set the User-Agent header, avoid - sending User-Agent: git-annex - * Windows: Fix rsync cross-drive hack to work with msys2 rsync. - Thanks, Pieter Kitslaar."""]]
\ No newline at end of file +"hexapodia as the key insight" + +* Added v6 repository mode, but v5 is still the default for now. +* unlock, lock: In v6 mode, unlocking a file changes it from a symlink to a + pointer file, and this change can be committed to the git repository. + For details, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/unlocked\_files/ +* The upgrade to version 6 is not done fully automatically yet, because + upgrading a direct mode repository to version 6 will prevent old + versions of git-annex from working in other clones of that repository. + For details, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/upgrades/ +* init: --version parameter added to control which supported repository + version to use. +* init, upgrade: Configure .git/info/attributes to use git-annex + as a smudge filter. In v6 repository mode, this makes git add + add files to the annex in unlocked mode, unless overridden by + annex.largefiles configuration. +* assistant: In v6 mode, adds files in unlocked mode, so they can + continue to be modified. +* Added annex.thin setting, which makes unlocked files in v6 repositories + be hard linked to their content, instead of a copy. This saves disk + space but means any modification of an unlocked file will lose the local + (and possibly only) copy of the old version. +* Enable annex.thin by default on upgrade from direct mode to v6, since + direct mode made the same tradeoff. +* fix: Adjusts unlocked files as configured by annex.thin. +* persistent-sqlite is now a hard build dependency, since v6 repository + mode needs it. +* status: On crippled filesystems, was displaying M for all annexed files + that were present. Probably caused by a change to what git status + displays in this situation. Fixed by treating files git thinks are + modified the same as typechanged files. +* addurl: Added --batch and --with-files options. +* addurl: Support --json, particularly useful in --batch mode. +* addurl: Refuse to overwrite any existing, non-annexed file. +* Debian: Adjust build dependencies for webapp, DAV. Now available on + mips, mipsel, but temporarily removed armel since build is failing + there. +* info: Fix "backend usage" numbers, which were counting present keys + twice. +* info --json: Improve json for "backend usage", using a nested object + with fields for each backend instead of the previous weird nested lists. + This may break existing parsers of this json output, if there were any. +* whereis --json: Make url list be included in machine-parseable form. +* test: Added --keep-failures option. +* unused: Bug fix when a new file was added to the annex, and then + removed (but not git rmed). git still has the add staged in this case, + so the content should not be unused and was wrongly treated as such. +* migrate: Copy over metadata to new key. +* rekey: No longer copies over urls from the old to the new key. + It makes sense for migrate to do that, but not for this low-level + (and little used) plumbing command to. +* view: Fix crash in non-unicode capable locale when entering a view + of metadata containing a slash or backslash. +* When annex.http-headers is used to set the User-Agent header, avoid + sending User-Agent: git-annex +* Windows: Fix rsync cross-drive hack to work with msys2 rsync. + Thanks, Pieter Kitslaar."""]] |