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1 GIT v1.6.4 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 When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
26 pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
27 configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
28 changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
29 a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
30 arguments is attempted.
33 Updates since v1.6.3
34 --------------------
36 (subsystems)
38 * gitweb Perl style clean-up.
40 * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
41 names by invoking an external program.
43 (portability)
45 * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
46 understood more widely.
48 (performance)
50 (usability, bells and whistles)
52 * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
53 is added to the index.
55 * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
56 when able.
58 * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
59 refs/* prefix.
61 * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
62 have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
64 * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
65 variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
67 * "git show-branch" can color its output.
69 * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
70 option to use local clone with references.
72 (developers)
74 * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
76 Fixes since v1.6.3
77 ------------------
79 All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this
80 release, unless otherwise noted.
82 Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
83 v1.6.3.X series.
85 * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
86 that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
87 as an absolute path when autodetected.
89 ---
90 exec >/var/tmp/1
91 echo O=$(git describe master)
92 O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa
93 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint