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1 GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes
2 ========================
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.
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:
13 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
14 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
16 for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
17 transition plan.
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.
25 In a future release, the default of "git push" without further
26 arguments might be changed. Currently, it will push all matching
27 refspecs to the current remote. A configuration variable push.default
28 has been introduced to select the default behaviour. To ease the
29 transition, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a
30 git push without arguments is attempted.
33 Updates since v1.6.2
34 --------------------
36 (subsystems)
38 (performance)
40 * many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
41 optimized out.
43 (usability, bells and whistles)
45 * rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
46 repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
47 testing.
49 * (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
50 be handled appropriately in Windows console.
52 * "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
53 spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
54 is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
56 * "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit".
58 * If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
59 with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
60 tell git not to apply it.
62 * git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
64 * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
65 is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
67 * You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame.
69 * git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
70 interest of each tracked remote repository.
72 * git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
73 directly.
75 * git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
77 * git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
78 format.attach.
80 * git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
82 * git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
84 * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
85 disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
87 * git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a
88 descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase
89 option.
91 * git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option.
93 * Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
95 * git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
96 sending the messages out.
98 (developers)
100 * Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
102 * Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
103 coverage tracking enabled.
105 Fixes since v1.6.2
106 ------------------
108 All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this
109 release, unless otherwise noted.
111 Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
112 v1.6.2.X series.
114 * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
115 in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
117 ---
118 exec >/var/tmp/1
119 O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7
120 echo O=$(git describe master)
121 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint