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1 GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes
2 ========================
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.
8 You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
9 configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving
10 repository.
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.
16 You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
17 configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving
18 repository.
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:
24 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
25 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
27 for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
28 transition plan.
30 Updates since v1.6.4
31 --------------------
33 (subsystems)
35 * various updates to git-svn and gitweb.
37 (portability)
39 * more improvements on mingw port.
41 (performance)
43 * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
44 block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
45 outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
46 Mozzilla.
48 * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
49 been removed.
51 (usability, bells and whistles)
53 * Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday,
54 master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly.
56 * refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
57 of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
58 transferred across repositories.
60 * "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences.
62 * "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly.
64 * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
65 of an incoming e-mail.
67 * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
68 choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".
70 * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
71 different from the remote's default branch.
73 * "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
74 happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
76 * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a
77 separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge.
79 * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even
80 when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file.
82 * "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when
83 reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
84 blobs.
86 * "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
87 extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
89 * "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server.
91 * "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
92 give the reference name in full.
94 * "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
96 * informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
97 paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
99 * "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
100 "foreach" subcommand.
102 * various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option.
104 * "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work
105 tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
106 the index.
108 * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and
109 "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes.
111 (developers)
113 * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
114 source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
117 Fixes since v1.6.4
118 ------------------
120 # All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
121 # release, unless otherwise noted.
123 # Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
124 # v1.6.4.X series.
126 --
127 exec >/var/tmp/1
128 O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c
129 echo O=$(git describe master)
130 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint