Hello everybody, it's finally time to announce a new version.
There have been a lot of internal changes (again); and that did take most of the time, because I had to shatter many hours of thinking into many small half-hour pieces, and that means a lot of wasted time. I hope to put the next version out sooner; it should have more user-visible (and fewer internal) changes. And that's already the keyword - the next version will feature some incompatibilities, and will duly be noted 1.2.0, or even 2.0. Time (and the next release announcement) will tell. Well, back to more mundane matters - what did change since 1.1.16? There are some additional features: - New "uncopy" command, to disambiguate "revert" on copied and changed entries. Manually added or "prop-set" entries are kept known. - New option "all_removed", to trim the output for deleted hierarchies. - New option "config_dir", important for https connections with client certificate authentication. - New command "delay", for use in scripts. - New command "rel-ignore"; this converts the given ($PWD-local) shell patterns to working copy root relative. - New "fsvs cat" command, to fetch really pristine copies from the repository. - A new flag for ignore patterns, for matching directories only. - And a way for ignore patterns to match the entries' mode; so eg. world-unreadable files can easily be ignored. The most important fixes are: - Bugfix for filtered commit (eg. "-f text"). Previously that stored the current meta-data of entries that didn't match the filter in the entry list, too; so they wouldn't be seen as changed afterwards. - Performance fix for "fsvs diff -rX:Y entry" - don't diff the whole working copy, only the given entries. - "diff" showed for replaced entries "only in rX" - fixed. - Bugfix for "dir_sort" option; the root directory wasn't printed. - Bugfixes for memory and file leaks in /tmp. Regarding documentation and directly user-visible changes there are - Some documentation fixes, and repairs for the man pages. There's now a bit more included in the source distribution, too. - Started a "tips & tricks" document. - User-readable error on non-writeable $FSVS_CONF. - The option "dir_sort" now uses strcoll(), ie. sorts according to the current locale. - "fsvs info" for the working copy root now prints the revision of the highest priority URL, and not "0". Not directly related to FSVS, but maybe of interest for users: there's a new web site "http://doc.fsvs-software.org";, which has the (generated) documentation available as normal files on a web server - and doesn't use the (slow) "checkout" hierarchy of fsvs.tigris.org. Last, but not least, I did some small enhancements that should make life easier for some corner-cases: - Export some environment variables for use in diff, commit- and update-pipes. - Splitted "-C" into finer grained option settings "-o change_check". Changed the default to use MD5 on possibly-changed files. - FSVS now shows "maybe changed" for unreadable files or directories; should we throw a warning? - Some directory mtime handling fixes. - Another try to detect invalid "colordiff" program names, and a better message than a simple "EPIPE". I'd like to say "thank you" for the users that reported problems; in (arbitrarily alphabetic order) Maurice, Plamen, and Thomas. *** Thank you! *** You can get it on the usual place: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsvs/; some distributions will have packages for you. every kind of feedback is highly appreciated, be it bug reports, questions, ideas or even patches; please send it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, as appropriate. If you create packages for $DISTRIBUTION (and want to share them), please tell me (and possibly the users-list), so that I can put the links on the download page. [ BTW, if you provide some easy way to use FSVS for eg. /etc, you might want to take a look at the example tree in the source distribution. ] To avoid angry (or curious) questions, I'll add what I'd like to see in the next version - and why that'll make FSVS incompatible with 1.1.x (and 1.0.x, of course). - The WAA and CONF layout will change a bit: - The URL list will move to the WAA. - The filename hashing may currently produce collisions, if you're using nested working copies. - I'm planning to enhance the (current) ignore patterns to "groupings", which would also serve to provide svn's "auto-props" feature. Then world-unreadable entries can be ignored, or can be sent encrypted to the repository. That'll (possibly) mean a bit of change in the way ignore patterns are stored in $FSVS_CONF; maybe I can do that compatible. Then there are lots of other features I'd like to implement - but I think that these would be enough for a new version. Regards, Phil -- Versioning your /etc, /home or even your whole installation? Try fsvs (fsvs.tigris.org)! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
