1 pristine-tar (1.27) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Now ported to Mac OS X.
5 - zgz: Use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on OSX instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
6 - suse-bzip2/Makefile: compile shared library appropriately on OSX
7 - INSTALL: Added some options useful when installing on OSX
8 Thanks, Torsten Maehne and Philipp A. Hartmann.
9 * zgz: Don't hardcode /lib, avoid segfaulting when installed in a
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:35:37 -0400
15 pristine-tar (1.26) unstable; urgency=low
17 * pristine-xz: Use xz --robot to extract information from xz files,
18 avoiding the need to do more expensive guessing. Support --block-list
19 when available to reproduce multi block files.
20 Closes: #677250 Thanks, Vincent Ladeuil
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:54:46 -0400
24 pristine-tar (1.25) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Remove unused fts.h include. Closes: #675367
27 * pristine-xz: Add --check=sha256 and compression levels 0 and 0e.
28 Closes: #677241 Thanks, Vincent Ladeuil
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:45:33 -0400
32 pristine-tar (1.24) unstable; urgency=low
34 * pristine-xz: Add --check=crc32 to list of allowed parameters.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:21:24 -0400
38 pristine-tar (1.23) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Detect git submodules procuded by recent git, where .git is a file,
41 not a directory. Closes: #666033
42 * pristine-xz: Handle CRC32 files made with PylibLZMA. Thanks, Mike Miller
43 Closes: #662129, #660783
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:00:49 -0400
47 pristine-tar (1.22) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Store the sha1 of the tree that is being committed, rather than
50 a sha1 of a commit or other object that points to the tree.
51 This makes committed tarballs more resilient against git filter-branch
52 when it's only used to change commit metadata. Closes: #467288
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:49:12 -0400
56 pristine-tar (1.21) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Fix bug in mtime resetting code, which caused delta files to be created
59 that failed to regenerate the original tarball. Closes: #661902
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:57:11 -0400
63 pristine-tar (1.20) unstable; urgency=low
65 * pristine-xz: Try --extreme too. While my corpus has no such xz files,
66 Darren Salt points out that automake 1.11.2 has started using
67 extreme mode. Closes: #658666
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:23:48 -0400
71 pristine-tar (1.19) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Fix duplicate function oops.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:43 -0400
77 pristine-tar (1.18) unstable; urgency=low
79 * pristine-xz: A simplistic xz recreator.
80 Current success rate on the Debian corpus: 70%.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:13:35 -0400
85 pristine-tar (1.17) unstable; urgency=low
87 * pristine-tar: Fail when the delta is excessively large, probably
88 due to the tarball being compressed with something that tar x can
89 auto-extract, but that pristine-tar does not support.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:44:44 -0400
93 pristine-tar (1.16) unstable; urgency=low
95 * pristine-bz2: Can recreate bz2 files greated by Suse's
96 patched bzip2. Closes: #641019
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:44:23 -0400
100 pristine-tar (1.15) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Fix Vcs-Browser url. Closes: #636926
103 * Propigate nonzero exit status from doit_redir. Closes: #600724
104 * 'pristine-tar list' displays a list of tarballs that are available for
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:53:03 -0400
109 pristine-tar (1.14) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Add support for gzip --rsyncable output produced by gzip 1.4.
112 This differs from prior --rsyncable output, which was made by a Debian
113 specific patch and used a different rsync window size, and reset
114 huffman encodings less often.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:05:15 -0400
119 pristine-tar (1.13) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Add a Perl quirks mode for tarballs generated by Perl's IO::Zlib, which
123 is used among other things by Module::Build. Closes: #618284
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:11:24 -0400
127 pristine-tar (1.12) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Fix gzg building with --as-needed. Closes: #604030
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:01:18 -0400
133 pristine-tar (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Add workaround for Debian's tar changing its output for tarballs
136 containing filenames exactly 100 bytes long. Closes: #602907
137 (Needs tar 1.25-2 with #603231 fixed in order for that to work.)
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:25:46 -0400
141 pristine-tar (1.10) unstable; urgency=low
143 * pristine-gz gengz: Bugfix: Always remove uncompressed input file.
144 * Large refactoring and modularization. (Thanks Gabriel de Perthuis
145 for inspiration for this.))
146 * Remove environment variables used by tar, gz, and bzip2, to avoid
147 local environment settings possibly breaking things.
148 Closes: #498760 (probably; thanks Ralph Lange for analysis)
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:36:25 -0400
153 pristine-tar (1.03) unstable; urgency=low
155 * zgz now includes a trimmed down copy of the compressor from bzip2 0.9.5d.
156 That old version of bzip2 generated different compression results,
157 and is the overwhelming reason for failures to reproduce bz2 files
158 in the Debian archive. Closes: #560170, #579657, #525128, #576119
159 (Special thanks to Laszlo Ersek for tracking this down.)
160 * Awesome new zgz man page!
161 * Faster generation of bzip2 deltas: Do not repeatedly decompress
163 * pristine-bz2 -t can be used to make it try harder to generate
164 a delta. Currently, this tries pbzip2 -b with various numbers.
165 Not the default because it's slow and I don't have any bzip2 files
166 from the wild that were built that way.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2010 02:19:32 -0400
170 pristine-tar (1.01) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Use italics in man pages to highlight which parts of command
173 lines are file names. Closes: #561015
174 * Added an example. Closes: #561016
175 * Document TMPDIR in man pages. Closes: #558266
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:41:07 -0500
179 pristine-tar (1.00) unstable; urgency=low
181 * pristine-gz: Fall back to storing a binary delta, in the rare
182 cases where the file cannot be 100% reproduced. A warning message
183 is printed if the binary delta is not relatively small.
184 * Allows generating quite small deltas for php-geoip,
185 xsupplicant, libgraphics-colornames-perl,
186 Ricoh-Aficio_2020D-Postscript.ppd.gz, and dozens on others
187 that zgz can closely replicate. Closes: #518972, #506874
188 * For other things the deltas are not as small.
189 This seems an accepable tradeoff to be able to reliably use it on
190 anything. Closes: #475778, #509703, #509707, #515256, #515331
191 * Increase gz delta version number to 3.0 if a binary delta file
193 * pristine-tar: Avoid dying in corner case involving tar's filename
194 encoding. Fixes several failures.
195 * pristine-tar: Avoid dying if tar tv exits nonzero. This makes
196 reproducing star's tarball work, even though tar gets upset
197 while listing it and decides to die at the end.
198 * pristine-gz: Avoid passing -F to zgz if --original-name
199 is passed. This bug prevented pristine-gz gengz from
200 recreating the gz in some cases.
201 * Add aliases ci and co for commit and checkout. Closes: #500388
202 * pristine-gz: Fix generation of gz files that have a null filename field.
203 * pristine-tar: Fix behavior in the corner case where the tarball
204 puts all files in a subdir, but does not contain the subdir's directory
207 Stats: Successfully generates deltas for all 14446 tarballs in the
208 Debian archive. Mean delta size: 19K Median: 2.6K Mode: 1.5K
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:23:22 -0400
212 pristine-tar (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Fix syntax mistake that could cause pristine-tar to in some cases
215 fail on tarballs containing files named "0". Closes: #523773
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:20:04 -0400
219 pristine-tar (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Add support for GIT_DIR. Closes: #512619
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:07:33 -0500
225 pristine-tar (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Avoid littering .orig.tar.gz.tmp files around by building intermediate
228 tarball in the temp dir. Closes: #508965
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:34:12 -0500
232 pristine-tar (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Add a .gitignore file
236 * Various cleanups to zgz.
237 * Remove the unnecessary -l, -S, -t, and -v flags from zgz.
238 * Allow the empty string as an original filename in zgz, rather than
239 treating the empty string as a flag to not store an original filename.
240 * Fix zgz's usage message to stop identifying the program as gzip.
241 * Add a new -T,--timestamp flag to zgz, to explicitly set the timestamp
242 stored in the gzip file, rather than taking the timestamp of the input
243 file. Closes: #507110
246 * zgz: Avoid using uninitialized data as timestamp in -c mode.
248 * Document existing long options. Closes: #499488
249 * Avoid exposing tar file names to the shell. Closes: #500499
250 * Clarify bit in man page about what file formats are supported.
254 * zgz: Incorporate a cut-down version of GNU gzip to support the --gnu
255 option. The cut-down gzip includes support for explicitly setting the
256 timestamp and original filename. Closes: #506627
257 * pristine-gz: Now that zgz supports explicitly setting the timestamp and
258 original filename with both --zlib and --gnu, use that support to do all
259 compression using -c with standard input and standard output. This
260 removes the need to create a temporary file with the original filename and
261 set its timestamp, as well as the need to continuously recreate the file
262 when compressed and removed. Closes: #506627
263 * zgz: Remove support for files, making -c the default. This removes a lot
264 of complexity and code duplication.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:12:27 -0500
268 pristine-tar (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
270 * pristine-gz: Avoid uncompressing the original file more than once.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:22:40 -0500
275 pristine-tar (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Correct -f order to come after --gnu.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:46:30 -0400
281 pristine-tar (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
283 * pristine-gz: Always pass -f to zgz, to support cases where
284 the gzip header claims that the original input file had an extension
285 that suggests it was itself already compressed. (Although it can't really
286 be.) Not doing the same for gzip because -f doesn't cause it to ignore
287 extensions. See #475778
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:29:54 -0400
291 pristine-tar (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Fix POD issues. Closes: #484165
294 * zgz: Remove support for a GZIP env variable. We don't need this in
295 pristine-tar, and if could screw things up if a user set it.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:46:41 -0400
300 pristine-tar (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Use debhelper v7; rules file minimisation.
303 * Add build and install targets to Makefile.
304 * Put in a workaround for bug #479317, an incompatability in perl 5.10
305 that causes nonzero exit if a program exits while chdired into a
306 subdirectory of a File::Temp temp directory.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 14:47:06 -0400
310 pristine-tar (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Man page typo fix. Closes: #475698
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:51:09 -0400
316 pristine-tar (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
318 * pristine-tar: Fix some bugs when run on an uncompressed tarball.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:14:45 -0400
322 pristine-tar (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Unset $keep, don't keep temp dirs. Oops.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:50:21 -0400
328 pristine-tar (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
330 * pristine-tar: Add -m option to specify a commit message. Closes: #465231
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:56:05 -0400
334 pristine-tar (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Add smart branching for commits. (Cyril Brulebois)
337 * Prefer to commit to the ref that exactly matches what is specified at the
339 * Send all debug and verbose prints to stderr, reserving stdout for
340 outputting deltas etc.
341 * pristine-tar commit was not generating deltas against the specified
342 upstream branch, but against the unpacked contents of the source tarball.
343 Fix it to use the upstream branch, ensuring that no matter what branch is
344 given, the delta that is created can always recreate the source tarball.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:31:29 -0500
348 pristine-tar (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
350 * If a tarball contains files all in one subdirectory, and the source
351 tree it's being generated from already has that subdirectory, don't
352 try to create the subdir, which would fail. OTOH, if the subdirectory
353 isn't there, proceed with creating it as before.
354 * Add support for bz2 files (Cyril Brulebois)
355 * Recommends bzip2 and pbzip2, which both might be needed when dealing
356 with bz2 files due to differences in their output.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:28:17 -0500
360 pristine-tar (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Improve/fix handling when there is no local pristine-tar branch.
363 * Add a newline to the .id files committed to git.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:13:06 -0500
367 pristine-tar (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Improve search for upstream branch. Default to looking for first
370 refs/heads/upstream, and failing that, anything with "upstream" in its
371 name. This way if there is a local upstream branch and a remote one, it
372 will use the local one. If there's only a remote one, it'll use that.
374 * Handle the case where there is no local pristine-tar branch. If there
375 is exactly one remote branch, use it for checkout. If more than one or
376 none, show a nice error message. (Cyril Brulebois)
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:35:37 -0500
380 pristine-tar (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Moved to git, and added a Vcs-Browser field.
383 * pristine-tar can now "commit" deltas for a tarball directly to a git
384 branch, and then "checkout" the original tarball again. Git users
385 are recommended to use these new subcommands because they're easier,
386 store the deltas in a consistent location, and avoid problems with
387 recreating things like empty directories that git doesn't track.
389 * Thanks to madcoder for help with manipulating git branches without
390 touching the working copy.
391 * Fix paranoia check in pristine-gz to correctly handle parameters
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:52:45 -0500
396 pristine-tar (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Allow the delta file to be read or written from stdio.
399 * Fix man page synopses formatting.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:45:04 -0500
403 pristine-tar (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
405 * pristine-tar sometimes got confused about tarballs that did not unpack
406 all files into a subdir. Fixes sear-media and 30 others.
407 * tar was confused by files starting with ./ or / in the manifest, so
408 strip it out. Fixes erlang-doc-html and 19 others, including doc-fdc,
409 which is the only package to have files in / in its tarball.
410 * Some tarballs put files in a subdir, but don't show a "/" after the subdir
411 name in a manifest. Stop relying on that. (example: streamtuner)
413 Current stats: Out of the whole debian archive, pristine-gz fails
414 on 132 files, and pristine-tar fails on 0. Success with 98.97% of
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:07:54 -0400
419 pristine-tar (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Added pristine-gz, thanks to paravoid for making this possible!
422 * Added zgz, which is derived from a BSD gzip program that uses libz.
423 Modified by paravoid to support many options needed to reproduce gz
425 * Renamed the subcommands extract => gentar , stash => gendelta
426 * Quite a lot of testing (ie, on the entire Debian archive) and bugfixes.
427 * Put files in the generated tarball mode 0644 pre-delta, this is a much
428 more likely file mode than the previous 0000 and thus makes the delta
430 * File format version is up to 2.0 due to misc incompatible changes.
431 * Fix a bug related to tar's handling of unicode filenames.
432 * Work around a strange tar behavior: When run with --mode 644, tar
433 preserves the sgid bit on subdirectories.
435 Current stats: Out of the whole debian archive, pristine-gz fails
436 on 131 files, and pristine-tar fails on 45. Success with 98.63% of
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:51:03 -0400
441 pristine-tar (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:06:00 -0400