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1 Git v1.6.6 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and checks
5 packfiles, and because of this it will take much longer to complete
6 than before. If you prefer a quicker check only on loose objects (the
7 old default), you can say "git fsck --no-full". This has been
8 supported by 1.5.4 and newer versions of git, so it is safe to write
9 it in your script even if you use slightly older git on some of your
10 machines.
12 In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.6, "git
13 push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by
14 default.
16 You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
17 configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving
18 repository.
20 Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote
21 repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by
22 its HEAD, will be refused by default.
24 You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
25 configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving
26 repository.
28 To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
29 push running this release will issue a big warning when the
30 configuration variable is missing. Please refer to:
32 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
33 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
35 for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
36 transition plan.
38 Updates since v1.6.5
39 --------------------
41 (subsystems)
43 * various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states, etc.
45 * git-svn updates.
47 * "git fetch" over http learned a new mode that is different from the
48 traditional "dumb commit walker".
50 (portability)
52 * imap-send can be built on mingw port.
54 (performance)
56 * "git diff -B" has smaller memory footprint.
58 (usability, bells and whistles)
60 * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects
61 global option given to the "git" program.
63 * In configuration files, a few variables that name paths can begin with ~/
64 and ~username/ and they are expanded as expected.
66 * "git subcmd -h" now shows short usage help for many more subcommands.
68 * "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit.
70 * "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there
71 is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to
72 start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch.
74 * "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option.
76 * "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs
77 instead of differences between the commit object names.
79 * "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the
80 default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full".
82 * "git grep" can use -F (fixed strings) and -i (ignore case) together.
84 * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of
85 compressed tarballs.
87 * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2.
89 * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well.
91 * "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned:
93 . to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier.
94 . to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier.
96 * "git notes" command to annotate existing commits.
98 * "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail
99 if the merge does not result in a fast-forward.
101 * "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge.
103 * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately
104 starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to
105 the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the
106 contents.
108 * In "git submodule add <repository> <path>", <path> is now optional and
109 inferred from <repository> the same way "git clone <repository>" does.
111 * "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets.
113 * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the
114 author.
117 (developers)
119 Fixes since v1.6.5
120 ------------------
122 All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this
123 release, unless otherwise noted.
125 ---
126 exec >/var/tmp/1
127 echo O=$(git describe master)
128 O=v1.6.5.3-337-gf341feb
129 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint