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1 | GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes |
2 | ======================== | |
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4 | With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is |
5 | currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose | |
6 | what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration | |
7 | variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. | |
8 | ||
9 | To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a | |
10 | push running this release will issue a big warning when the | |
11 | configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: | |
12 | ||
13 | http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare | |
14 | http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 | |
15 | ||
16 | for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the | |
17 | transition plan. | |
18 | ||
19 | For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch | |
20 | $killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current | |
21 | branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what | |
22 | should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable | |
23 | receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. | |
24 | ||
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25 | When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always |
26 | pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new | |
27 | configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow | |
28 | changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, | |
29 | a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without | |
30 | arguments is attempted. | |
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33 | Updates since v1.6.2 |
34 | -------------------- | |
35 | ||
36 | (subsystems) | |
37 | ||
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38 | * various git-svn updates. |
39 | ||
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40 | * git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a |
41 | fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff. | |
42 | ||
43 | * gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows | |
44 | support. | |
45 | ||
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46 | (performance) |
47 | ||
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48 | * many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been |
49 | optimized out. | |
50 | ||
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51 | (usability, bells and whistles) |
52 | ||
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53 | * Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off. |
54 | ||
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55 | * rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local |
56 | repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for | |
57 | testing. | |
58 | ||
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59 | * http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or |
60 | pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL. | |
61 | ||
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62 | * (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can |
63 | be handled appropriately in Windows console. | |
64 | ||
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65 | * "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be |
66 | spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring | |
67 | is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. | |
68 | ||
e37347bb | 69 | * "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit". |
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71 | * "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph |
72 | in colors. | |
73 | ||
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74 | * If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks |
75 | with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to | |
76 | tell git not to apply it. | |
77 | ||
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78 | * @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in |
79 | 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few | |
80 | commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname". | |
81 | ||
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82 | * git-archive learned --output=<file> option. |
83 | ||
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84 | * git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly |
85 | speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one. | |
86 | Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from | |
87 | the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads | |
88 | attributes from the work tree). | |
89 | ||
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90 | * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness |
91 | is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. | |
92 | ||
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93 | * You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame. |
94 | ||
c965c029 | 95 | * "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in |
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96 | interest of each tracked remote repository. |
97 | ||
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98 | * "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the |
99 | "upstream" branch for them. | |
100 | ||
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101 | * git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file |
102 | directly. | |
103 | ||
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104 | * git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout. |
105 | ||
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106 | * git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily |
107 | maintained by David Aguilar. | |
108 | ||
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109 | * git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token. |
110 | ||
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111 | * git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, |
112 | format.attach. | |
113 | ||
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114 | * git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. |
115 | ||
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116 | * git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration |
117 | variable. | |
118 | ||
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119 | * git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra |
120 | header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing | |
121 | --add-header=<header> option of the command. | |
122 | ||
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123 | * git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when |
124 | told to send patches as attachments. | |
125 | ||
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126 | * git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. |
127 | ||
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128 | * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily |
129 | disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. | |
130 | ||
131 | * git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a | |
132 | descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase | |
133 | option. | |
134 | ||
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135 | * git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option. |
136 | ||
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137 | * Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. |
138 | ||
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139 | * "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and |
140 | then prunes stale tracking branches. | |
141 | ||
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142 | * git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before |
143 | sending the messages out. | |
144 | ||
145 | (developers) | |
146 | ||
147 | * Test scripts can be run under valgrind. | |
148 | ||
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149 | * Test scripts can be run with installed git. |
150 | ||
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151 | * Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with |
152 | coverage tracking enabled. | |
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154 | * Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now |
155 | requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug. | |
156 | This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems | |
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157 | with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more |
158 | knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the | |
159 | docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. | |
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161 | * Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a |
162 | working perl has been improved. | |
163 | ||
164 | ||
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165 | Fixes since v1.6.2 |
166 | ------------------ | |
167 | ||
168 | All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this | |
169 | release, unless otherwise noted. | |
170 | ||
171 | Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to | |
172 | v1.6.2.X series. | |
173 | ||
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174 | * "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B |
175 | and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry | |
176 | picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee). | |
177 | ||
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178 | * The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute |
179 | file that is being checked out. | |
180 | ||
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181 | * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears |
182 | in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). |