v2022.12

Maintenance release to include the bug fixes and improvements made in the last semester.

Bug fixes

• Fix non-ascii-paths errors in windows by @artyl in #55
• Improve debug output during trace by @algorythmic in #54
• Make sure Git attribs are always initialized, to fix #53 as reported by @willemw12
• Improve file/dir handling when using --skip-older-than-commit

New Contributors

• @algorythmic made their first contribution in #54
• @artyl made their first contribution in #55

Full Changelog: v2022.07...v2022.12

v2022.07

Highlights:

• New option --version. ('bout time!)
  • hard-coded, easily parse-able __version__ string in code.
  • with a +dev suffix added in a post-release commit, to help identify an unreleased development version.
  • git describe appended at run-time when running non-release from repository, to further help in identification.
• New option --unique-times, requested by @skorokithakis in #43.
• New option --skip-older-than-commit, requested by @wpwoodjr in #49.
• Unless --force, ignore files instead of aborting on uncommitted changes, requested by @wpwoodjr in #51
• Several small performance optimizations.
  • git-restore-mtime itself is now only less than 17% of execution time, remaining comes all from git log.
  • Faster than most shell scripts, as the mtime updates in Python do not spawn new processes, unlike touch.
  • Can update the linux kernel repository in under 75 seconds. That's more than 1 million commits evaluated!
• Improved documentation, manual pages and README, warranted by #38, @aavmurphy (#42), @heldersepu (#44), @itzikhoch (#45), @Jolly-Pirate (#47)

v2020.09

Highlights:

• Windows build, thanks to @Hakuna75
• New option --skip-older-than SECONDS, thanks to @semenovalexander
• New option --oldest-time, A.K.A. "reverse log", thanks to @sysvinit
• Graceful abort handling (CTRL+C / KeyboardInterrupt)
• Proper error code on exit status
• Minor bug fixes
• Major code refactoring

v2019.11

• several performance improvements
• use ISO datetime format
• refactor git calls into a convenience class
• improve documentation
• Windows bugfixes
• add several TODO and FIXME notes as a roadmap draft
• remove outdated benchmarks

v2019.10

• Drop Python 2 support, fully support Python 3
• Properly handle non-ASCII paths
• Code refactoring, cleanup and better modularization
• Drop unmaintained, proof-of-concept versions of restore-mtime

v2018.10

Improve documentation, Windows compatibility, symlinks handling and bash path finding.

v2017.10

Python 3 and Windows compatibility

First official release

v2015.2

restore-mtime: handle quote-encoded filenames in git output