CRAN release v0.33.0

CHANGES

• Added a missing 'git2r-package' alias to the documentation.

• Added the argument 'raw' to the 'content' function to make it
  possible to get a blob content as a raw vector, see issue #461.

• Updated the bundled libgit2 source code to version 1.7.1.

• Changed the R dependency from >= 3.4 to >= 4.0.

• Added a missing '-liconv' to PKG_LIBS in Makevars.win.

CRAN release v0.32.0

CHANGES

• Updated the bundled libgit2 source code to version 1.6.3.

• Fix build failure of bundled libgit2 when structure for nanosecond
  type is mssing.

CRAN release version 0.31.0

CHANGES

• Removed unused macro 'AC_PROG_CC' from the build configuration
  script.

CRAN release v0.30.1

CHANGES

• Added the build configuration script ('src/Makevars.ucrt') for
  Windows UCRT. Thanks to Tomas Kalibera for providing the patch.

• Added documentation about line endings in the diff
  function. Different operating systems handle line endings
  differently and to avoid problems in diffs, Git can be configured to
  handle these differences in line endings

CRAN release v0.29.0

CHANGES

• Added a 'branch' argument to the 'init' function to make it possible
  to specify the branch name.

• Updated the build configuration script on Windows and MacOS to use
  libgit2 version 1.3.0.

• Updated the bundled libgit2 source code to version 1.3.0.

• Renamed the NEWS file to NEWS.md and changed to use markdown format
  style.

CRAN release v0.28.0

IMPROVEMENTS

• Updated to use libgit2 version 1.1.0 on Windows.

• Fix handling of a symbolic reference when checking out previous
  branch.

• Added a configure option '--without-libgit2' to ignore presence of a
  system libgit2 library and instead use the internal git2r libgit2
  library. Usage:
  R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--without-libgit2' git2r_x.y.z.tar.gz

• Updated some tests to work with libgit2 version 1.1.0.

CRAN release v0.27.1

git2r 0.27.1

CHANGES

• Updated the bundled libgit2 source code to version '0.28.5'.

• Updated the build configuration script to be able to build git2r
  with a system installation of libgit2 version >= 1.0.

• Updated to use libgit2 version 1.0.0 on Windows.

• The build configuration script checks for minimum required version
  of libssh2 (version >= 1.8). Issue #420.

• Updated to use roxygen2 version 7.1.0 to build the documentation.

• Make it easier to view and change the timezone (John Blischak in
  #408).

• Fixed 'ls_tree' to handle content in subfolder, see description in
  PR #402.

• The 'branch_create' function has been changed to use the
  'last_commit()' function as default to determine the commit to which
  the new branch should point.

• Fixed the CITATION file to pass 'R CMD check' without a NOTE.

CRAN release v0.26.1

BUG FIXES

• Fixed the broken build on Solaris.

CRAN release v0.26.0

IMPROVEMENTS

• Updated the bundled libgit2 source code to version '0.28.2'.

• Added the 'force' argument to the 'tag' function to overwrite an
  existing tag.

• Allow a zero length tag message.

• Make it possible to create a lighweight tag.

• Added the 'ref' argument to the 'commits' function to give a
  reference to list commits from.

• Added the utility function 'lookup_commit' to lookup a commit
  related to a git object.

• The 'path' argument was added to the 'commits' function to make it
  possible to specify that only commits modifying this file ('path')
  will be returned to reproduce 'git log' with '--no-follow', see the
  documentation. (Peter Carbonetto and John Blischak in PR #372)

BUG FIXES

• Removed the timezone offset from the commit time to fix an incorrect
  time in GMT when reading information from a repository (Thierry
  Onkelinx in PR #393).

CRAN release v0.25.2

CHANGES

• Improved the build configuration script: if the system installation
  of libgit2 is to old, use the bundled libgit2 instead of raising an
  error.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed the broken build on Solaris.