1 Release Notes for archives2git version/0.3
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5 - New script `dsc2git` to convert Debian source packages.
6 - `--unpack`: new option to specify a custom extraction command.
7 - `--strip-ext`: new option to remove an unusual file extension.
8 - `--keep-tempdir`: new debug option.
9 - Support per repository configuration files.
10 - `$ARCHIVES2GIT_ENV`: new environment variable to specify an alternate
13 .Fixes and Improvements
14 - Support extracted dangling symlinks.
15 - Support globbing characters and (non trailing) newlines in filenames of
17 - Warn when an extracted/renamed file overwrites another one.
18 - Use `sed` extended regular expressions to support BSD sed.
19 - Evaluate script snippets in subshells to prevent conflicts with the main
23 Release Notes for archives2git version/0.2
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27 - Support processing directories in place of archive files.
28 - Add several new switches and associated variables to tag (`--tag`,
29 `--tagname`), to take an author name on the command line (`--author`), to
30 run an arbitrary command after the processing of each archive
32 - Process the command line options with `git-rev-parse` (so that the options
33 can be intermixed with the archive filenames).
35 .Fixes and Improvements
36 - Various portability improvements.
37 - Better error checking.
38 - Separate a body passed to `--body` from the title by a blank line.
40 .Documentation changes
41 - Add online help (`--help`, `--helpm`) and a corresponding manual page.
42 - Add more examples in the template of a configuration file.
44 .Dependencies and Packaging changes
45 - Add a new +Makefile+ to build the manual page and to install.
46 - Depend on HelpMessage and pod2man to build the manual page.
49 Release Notes for archives2git version/0.1
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52 This is the first release of archives2git. The project contains the script