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1 GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.6.0
5 --------------------
7 When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we
8 used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces
9 output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the
10 pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the
11 processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now
12 on.
14 (subsystems)
16 * gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn
17 can run gitk from its blame view.
19 (portability)
21 * ...
23 (documentation)
25 * ...
27 (performance)
29 * The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
30 optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing.
32 * Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers)
33 can be run in parallel.
35 * Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of
36 refs has been optimized.
38 (usability, bells and whistles)
40 * When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses
41 you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set
42 to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
43 guess.
45 * "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
46 merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
48 * "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now
49 DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you
50 said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack".
52 * "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution.
54 * "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing
55 commits.
57 * "git count-objects" reports the on-disk footprint for packfiles and
58 their corresponding idx files.
60 * "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option.
62 * "git diff" learned to mimick --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a
63 configuration option.
65 * "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and
66 HTML contents.
68 * "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are
69 being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration.
71 * "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
72 unambiguously abbreviated refname.
74 * "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before
75 using "man" program.
77 * "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL.
79 * "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while
80 completing a thin pack.
82 * "git log --check" and "git log --exit-code" passes their underlying diff
83 status with their exit status code.
85 * "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history;
86 "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history.
88 * "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts
89 names of tags that point at the commit.
91 * "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are
92 noticed as user errors.
94 * "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
95 command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
97 * "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire
98 refs/heads/branch".
100 * "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
101 out submodules.
103 * "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL
104 recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file.
106 (internal)
108 * "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that
109 correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents
110 stored in a temporary file.
112 Fixes since v1.6.0
113 ------------------
115 All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this
116 release, unless otherwise noted.
118 * "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S
119 is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in
120 it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F
121 is a path in it).
123 * "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them,
124 but we droppped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
125 been resurrected.
127 * "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
129 * "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
130 telling saying these two options are incompatible.
132 * "git log --author/--committer" match used to potentially match the
133 timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
134 not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
136 --
137 exec >/var/tmp/1
138 O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35
139 echo O=$(git describe master)
140 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint