From 087c2917aaa6e3ac4c8b07591c2f398a75d8f2cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Neumann <alexander@bumpern.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:29:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Check version in build.go

Print a sensible error for Go < 1.7 (the "context" package is missing
there)
---
 build.go | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/build.go b/build.go
index ec5566093..8a041df94 100644
--- a/build.go
+++ b/build.go
@@ -291,6 +291,12 @@ func (cs Constants) LDFlags() string {
 }
 
 func main() {
+	ver := runtime.Version()
+	if strings.HasPrefix(ver, "go1") && ver < "go1.7" {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Go version %s detected, restic requires at least Go 1.7\n", ver)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
 	buildTags := []string{}
 
 	skipNext := false

From 7635feb5910e6308e532345173c7c6ee7a028859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Neumann <alexander@bumpern.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:37:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add cross-compilation to README and Manual

---
 README.md     | 10 ++++++++++
 doc/Manual.md | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3fe4c0edb..69811582a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ afterwards you'll find the binary in the current directory:
       restic [OPTIONS] <command>
     [...]
 
+You can easily cross-compile restic for all supported platforms, just supply
+the target OS and platform via the command-line options like this (for Windows
+and FreeBSD respectively):
+
+    $ go run build.go --goos windows --goarch amd64
+
+    $ go run build.go --goos freebsd --goarch 386
+
+The resulting binary is statically linked and does not require any libraries.
+
 More documentation can be found in the [user manual](doc/Manual.md).
 
 At the moment, the only tested compiler for restic is the official Go compiler.
diff --git a/doc/Manual.md b/doc/Manual.md
index 5f2a470ff..603640035 100644
--- a/doc/Manual.md
+++ b/doc/Manual.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Thanks for using restic. This document will give you an overview of the basic
+nhanks for using restic. This document will give you an overview of the basic
 functionality provided by restic.
 
 # Installing restic
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ $ cd restic
 $ go run build.go
 ```
 
+You can easily cross-compile restic for all supported platforms, just supply
+the target OS and platform via the command-line options like this (for Windows
+and FreeBSD respectively):
+
+    $ go run build.go --goos windows --goarch amd64
+
+    $ go run build.go --goos freebsd --goarch 386
+
+The resulting binary is statically linked and does not require any libraries.
+
 At the moment, the only tested compiler for restic is the official Go compiler.
 Building restic with gccgo may work, but is not supported.
 

From f678c9734655c140e0e2dbf184eb86379e888a0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Neumann <alexander@bumpern.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:34:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add VERSION file for 0.5.0

---
 VERSION | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ebce39f53..8f0916f76 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.5.0-rc.1
+0.5.0