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1 | GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes |
2 | ======================== | |
3 | ||
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 | |
d23f9c8e | 14 | https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ |
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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 | |
26 | Updates since v1.6.3 | |
27 | -------------------- | |
28 | ||
29 | (subsystems) | |
30 | ||
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31 | * gitweb Perl style clean-up. |
32 | ||
33 | * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author | |
77acc32b | 34 | names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind |
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35 | 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting |
36 | of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc. | |
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37 | |
38 | (portability) | |
39 | ||
40 | * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is | |
77acc32b | 41 | understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use |
b3601a63 | 42 | encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead |
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43 | of "ISO-8859-1"). |
44 | ||
45 | * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of | |
46 | SunOS, IRIX, and Windows. | |
47 | ||
48 | * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink. | |
33fd7169 | 49 | |
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50 | (performance) |
51 | ||
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52 | * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath. |
53 | ||
54 | * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized | |
55 | to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index. | |
56 | ||
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57 | (usability, bells and whistles) |
58 | ||
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59 | * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what |
60 | is added to the index. | |
61 | ||
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62 | * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input. |
63 | ||
64 | * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope | |
65 | to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is | |
66 | already known to be untestable. | |
67 | ||
68 | * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion | |
69 | ||
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70 | * "git fast-export" learned to handle history simplification more |
71 | gracefully. | |
72 | ||
73 | * "git fast-export" learned an option --tag-of-filtered-object to handle | |
74 | dangling tags resulting from history simplification more usefully. | |
75 | ||
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76 | * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the |
77 | same context hunk marker "git diff" uses. | |
78 | ||
79 | * https transport can optionally be told that the used client | |
80 | certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the | |
81 | password only once. | |
82 | ||
83 | * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware. | |
84 | ||
d8f7be2e | 85 | * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines |
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86 | when able. |
87 | ||
88 | * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known | |
89 | refs/* prefix. | |
90 | ||
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91 | * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before |
92 | using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching | |
93 | and pushing can be different. | |
94 | ||
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95 | * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might |
96 | have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). | |
97 | ||
98 | * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration | |
99 | variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from"). | |
100 | ||
101 | * "git show-branch" can color its output. | |
102 | ||
103 | * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference | |
104 | option to use local clone with references. | |
105 | ||
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106 | * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked |
107 | out submodules by rebasing the local changes. | |
108 | ||
109 | * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names. | |
110 | ||
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111 | (developers) |
112 | ||
33fd7169 | 113 | * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. |
5a0e4a2a | 114 | |
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115 | * Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported. |
116 | ||
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117 | Fixes since v1.6.3 |
118 | ------------------ | |
119 | ||
120 | All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this | |
121 | release, unless otherwise noted. | |
122 | ||
123 | Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to | |
124 | v1.6.3.X series. | |
125 | ||
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126 | * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from |
127 | the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed | |
128 | directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked | |
129 | to backport this fix. | |
130 | ||
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131 | * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers |
132 | that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location | |
133 | as an absolute path when autodetected. | |
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135 | * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its |
136 | section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost | |
137 | that variable definition. | |
138 | ||
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139 | * "git rebase -p --onto" used to always leave side branches of a merge |
140 | intact, even when both branches are subject to rewriting. | |
141 | ||
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142 | * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true |
143 | parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit. | |
144 | After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting | |
145 | the repository. | |
146 | ||
d8f7be2e | 147 | * "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion. |