Release v0.5.0

Added

• Add brief first draft of godoc compatible usage information
• Support for processing one or more paths via command-line or environment
  variable
• Logging output
  • total paths provided
  • current iteration in loop across provided paths
  • ending result noted as successful completion or completion with warnings
  • misc logging tweaks to record additional field values that could be useful
    when troubleshooting

Changed

• Updated README to cover new support for processing multiple paths
  • examples now reference /tmp/elbow as the base path with
    /tmp/elbow/path1 and /tmp/elbow/path2 as example multi-path arguments
• single path command-line flag --path replaced by multi-path --paths
  command-line flag
• ELBOW_PATH environment variable replaced by ELBOW_PATHS which now
  supports comma-separated list of paths
• Makefile
  • Makefile and test scripts updated to work with multiple paths
  • make testenv now prepares /tmp/elbow/path1 and /tmp/elbow/path2 by
    default
  • override variable exposed as TESTENVBASEDIR (covered in README)
  • UPX is no longer used to compress generated executables

Removed

• Use of UPX for compressing executables
  • using UPX to compress executables disables use of go version and go version -m -v to determine the version of Go and associated modules used
    to build them
• --path command-line flag (see earlier notes)
• ELBOW_PATH environment variable (see earlier notes)

Fixed

• Early exit logic
  • hard-coded os.Exit(1) calls (from before support for ignoring errors
    were added) were adjusted to respect the IgnoreErrors option
• README
  • Add missing --age command-line flag option
  • Add missing ELBOW_FILE_AGE environment variable

References

• See the v0.5.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information

Release v0.4.0

Added

• Latest Release badge on README
• Support for environment variables via alexflint/go-arg package
• Makefile
  • command: testrun
  • Set version global variable in main package based on git describe

Changed

• --extension (multi-use) flag is now --extensions (single call, multiple values supported
  • See README for usage
• Replaced jessevdk/go-flags package with alexflint/go-arg
• Improve configuration validation to accommodate lack of native go-arg
  support for enforcing specific flag values
• Makefile
  • TODO: Add more info here
• go.mod updated to use Go 1.13 as the base version
  • Based on some reading in https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules, the
    behavior for go get -u changed to allow more conservative updates of
    dependencies. The new behavior sounds more natural and is less likely to
    surprise newcomers, so locking the base behavior to Go 1.13 sounds like a
    "Good Thing" to do here.
• README updated to note Go 1.13 as the base version

Removed

• jessevdk/go-flags package replaced with alexflint/go-arg

Fixed

• Typo in license text
• Replace lightweight Git tags with annotated tags

References

• See the v0.4.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information

Release v0.3.2

Fixed

• README: Add package dependencies and install steps
• Fix miscellaneous spelling errors
  • credit: Code Spell Checker VSCode extension
• Update Config.String() method to include new fields
• Log config field values after setting logging level so that they're visible
  when choosing to log at debug level
• Remove placeholder text from README file that has since been superseded by
  real content
• Fix file removal bug by using fully-qualified path to file instead of
  shortname
  • the bug was due to an unintentional assumption that the file to be removed
    was within the current working directory

References

• See the v0.3.2 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information

Release v0.3.1

Changed

• Update Makefile (and the called testing/setup_testenv.sh script) to allow
  for providing a custom location for generation of test files)

Fixed

• Minor tweak to logging output to reduce duplication between main log message
  and the structured field

References

• See the v0.3.1 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information

Release v0.3.0

Added

• Add Makefile
  • handle cleaning the build environment, the local Git repo and other
    temporary content
  • handle building binaries for Windows and Linux
• Add test environment setup script
  • used by Makefile; usable separately if desired
• (optional) Match files based on age threshold (in number of days)

Changed

• Update .gitignore file to exclude temporary files generated by UPX
• Update README to provide build and, test environment setup directions
• Refactor threshold helper functions in an effort to more clearly reflect
  their purpose
• Update logging to include more structured fields

Fixed

• Fix link to section in README

References

• See the v0.3.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information

Release v0.2.0

Added

Documentation:

• LICENSE file
• CHANGELOG.md file
• NOTICES.txt file
• License header to all source files

Logging:

• Apply leveled logging to better filter desired logging levels
• Add (optional on Linux, unavailable on Windows) syslog logging support
• Add optional log file support

Configuration options:

• (optional) Ignore errors when removing files
• (optional) Log format (text or json, defaults to text)
• (optional) Log level (large list, mapped where possible to syslog logging
  levels)
• (optional) Console output toggle (stdout or stderr)
• (optional) Log file path (logging to a log file mutes console output)

Changed

• Short flag names dropped
  • There are some issues with go-flags misdetecting leading dashes in file
    patterns as short flags, so instead of dealing with that right now I've
    opted to only support long flag names
  • go-flags only supports single letter short flags, and with the number of
    flags that we're using I decided to keep things simple for now and only
    use long flag names
• The number of files to keep from match results is now a required flag

Removed

• Feature: Short flag names
• Package: integrii/flaggy
• Package: r3labs/diff

References

• See the v0.2.0 milestone for the issues associated with this release.
• See our CHANGELOG for more information

Release v0.1.0

This initial prototype supports:

• Matching on specified file patterns
• Flat (single-level) or recursive search
• Keeping a specified number of older or newer matches
• Limiting search to specified list of extensions
• Toggling file removal (read-only by default)
• Go modules (vs classic GOPATH setup)
• Brief overview, examples for testing purposes

Refs:

• GH-4
• GH-2