What’s new in this guide

This section provides a summary with links to topics in this Guide. For a complete list of what's new in this release, see the Release Notes for Git Connector.

2022.1

No new features for this release.

2021.2

Support for garbage collection of obsolete objects. See Delete a repo and free the used storage.

2021.1

See the Release Notes for Git Connector.

Note

If you are licensed for Helix Core version 2021.1 patch 1 or greater, Helix4Git licensing is included at no extra charge.

2020.2

You can control the retaining or unpacking of Git packfiles into loose objects when Helix4Git imports the contents of an external Git repo into a Helix Core graph depot. See the Important note at the bottom of Configure the Git Connector.

2020.1

See the Helix4Git Release Notes.

2019.2

For polling repos, the UpdateCachedRepos: field has replaced the ExternalAddress: field. See Configuring Git Connector to poll repos from Helix4Git.

2019.1

Area

Feature

Git LFS file locking

The locks created in Helix Core Server with p4 graph lfs-lock are visible to Git clients, and the locks created in Git with git lfs lock are visible to Helix Core Server.

2018.2

Area Feature
One-way mirroring from Git servers Support for mirroring from servers with Git Large File Storage. See Git LFS
System requirements

Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

2018.1 release

Area Feature

One-way mirroring from Git servers

See the updated step that mentions "As the system user git that is created during configuration of Helix Connector, configure the webhook for mirroring" at:

Git Large File Storage (LFS)

A replica can sync LFS files from graph depots. To configure this support, see One-way mirroring from Git servers and Git LFS.

p4 help on graph depots is also available in this guide

See Git Connector Commands

2017.2 release

New features