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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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34 | names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind |
35 | 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, etc. | |
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36 | |
37 | (portability) | |
38 | ||
39 | * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is | |
77acc32b | 40 | understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use |
b3601a63 | 41 | encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead |
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42 | of "ISO-8859-1"). |
43 | ||
44 | * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of | |
45 | SunOS, IRIX, and Windows. | |
46 | ||
47 | * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink. | |
33fd7169 | 48 | |
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49 | (performance) |
50 | ||
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51 | * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath. |
52 | ||
53 | * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized | |
54 | to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index. | |
55 | ||
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56 | (usability, bells and whistles) |
57 | ||
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58 | * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what |
59 | is added to the index. | |
60 | ||
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61 | * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input. |
62 | ||
63 | * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope | |
64 | to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is | |
65 | already known to be untestable. | |
66 | ||
67 | * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion | |
68 | ||
69 | * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the | |
70 | same context hunk marker "git diff" uses. | |
71 | ||
72 | * https transport can optionally be told that the used client | |
73 | certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the | |
74 | password only once. | |
75 | ||
76 | * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware. | |
77 | ||
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78 | * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines |
79 | when able. | |
80 | ||
81 | * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known | |
82 | refs/* prefix. | |
83 | ||
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84 | * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before |
85 | using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching | |
86 | and pushing can be different. | |
87 | ||
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88 | * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might |
89 | have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). | |
90 | ||
91 | * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration | |
92 | variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from"). | |
93 | ||
94 | * "git show-branch" can color its output. | |
95 | ||
96 | * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference | |
97 | option to use local clone with references. | |
98 | ||
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99 | * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked |
100 | out submodules by rebasing the local changes. | |
101 | ||
102 | * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names. | |
103 | ||
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104 | (developers) |
105 | ||
33fd7169 | 106 | * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. |
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107 | |
108 | Fixes since v1.6.3 | |
109 | ------------------ | |
110 | ||
111 | All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this | |
112 | release, unless otherwise noted. | |
113 | ||
114 | Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to | |
115 | v1.6.3.X series. | |
116 | ||
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117 | * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from |
118 | the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed | |
119 | directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked | |
120 | to backport this fix. | |
121 | ||
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122 | * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers |
123 | that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location | |
124 | as an absolute path when autodetected. | |
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126 | * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its |
127 | section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost | |
128 | that variable definition. | |
129 | ||
130 | * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true | |
131 | parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit. | |
132 | After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting | |
133 | the repository. | |
134 | ||
135 | * "git send-email" did not detect errorneous loops in alias expansion. | |
136 | ||
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137 | --- |
138 | exec >/var/tmp/1 | |
139 | echo O=$(git describe master) | |
b3601a63 | 140 | O=v1.6.4-rc2-17-g130b04a |
5a0e4a2a | 141 | git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |