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1 | GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes |
2 | ======================== | |
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4 | In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git |
5 | push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by | |
6 | default. | |
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7 | |
8 | You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the | |
9 | configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving | |
10 | repository. | |
11 | ||
12 | Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote | |
13 | repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by | |
14 | its HEAD, will be refused by default. | |
15 | ||
16 | You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the | |
17 | configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving | |
18 | repository. | |
19 | ||
20 | To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a | |
21 | push running this release will issue a big warning when the | |
22 | configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: | |
23 | ||
24 | http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare | |
25 | http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 | |
26 | ||
27 | for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the | |
28 | transition plan. | |
29 | ||
30 | Updates since v1.6.4 | |
31 | -------------------- | |
32 | ||
33 | (subsystems) | |
34 | ||
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37 | (portability) |
38 | ||
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39 | * more improvements on mingw port. |
40 | ||
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41 | * mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS |
42 | environment variable when the user does not have one. | |
43 | ||
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44 | * initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC. |
45 | ||
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46 | (performance) |
47 | ||
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48 | * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's |
49 | block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which | |
50 | outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from | |
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53 | * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has |
54 | been removed. | |
55 | ||
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56 | * "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e. |
57 | referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags | |
58 | hierarchy) anymore. | |
59 | ||
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60 | * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged |
61 | in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing | |
62 | commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now | |
63 | implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we | |
64 | used to. | |
65 | ||
66 | * "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to | |
67 | newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files, | |
68 | but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the | |
69 | cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid | |
70 | this issue. | |
71 | ||
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72 | (usability, bells and whistles) |
73 | ||
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74 | * Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday, |
75 | master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly. | |
76 | ||
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77 | * A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated |
78 | people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow | |
79 | users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages | |
80 | can be silenced now. | |
81 | ||
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82 | * refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement |
83 | of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be | |
84 | transferred across repositories. | |
85 | ||
86 | * "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences. | |
87 | ||
88 | * "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly. | |
89 | ||
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90 | * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part |
91 | of an incoming e-mail. | |
92 | ||
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93 | * "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to |
94 | use with an explicit "--format=zip".option. | |
95 | ||
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96 | * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and |
97 | choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p". | |
98 | ||
99 | * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out | |
100 | different from the remote's default branch. | |
101 | ||
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102 | * "git clone" learned --recursive option. |
103 | ||
104 | * "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to | |
105 | copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving | |
106 | them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed. | |
107 | ||
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108 | * "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would |
109 | happen if I try to commit with these arguments." | |
110 | ||
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111 | * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a |
112 | separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge. | |
113 | ||
114 | * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even | |
115 | when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file. | |
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116 | |
117 | * "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when | |
118 | reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of | |
119 | blobs. | |
120 | ||
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121 | * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area. |
122 | ||
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123 | * "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an |
124 | extra argument (i.e. "git init this"). | |
125 | ||
126 | * "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server. | |
127 | ||
128 | * "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to | |
129 | give the reference name in full. | |
130 | ||
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131 | * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected |
132 | that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local | |
133 | uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it | |
134 | clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm. | |
135 | ||
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136 | * "git push" can be told to be --quiet. |
137 | ||
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138 | * "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL |
139 | that is derived from the URL used for fetching. | |
140 | ||
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141 | * informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified |
142 | paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch". | |
143 | ||
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144 | * "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with |
145 | "foreach" subcommand. | |
146 | ||
147 | * various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option. | |
148 | ||
149 | * "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work | |
150 | tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing | |
151 | the index. | |
152 | ||
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153 | * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and |
154 | "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes. | |
155 | ||
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156 | (developers) |
157 | ||
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158 | * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the |
159 | source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround. | |
160 | ||
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161 | * With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can |
162 | build for one location, and install into another location to tar it | |
163 | up. | |
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165 | Fixes since v1.6.4 |
166 | ------------------ | |
167 | ||
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168 | All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this |
169 | release, unless otherwise noted. |