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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.
26 Updates since v1.6.3
27 --------------------
29 (subsystems)
31 * gitweb Perl style clean-up.
33 * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
34 names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
35 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting
36 of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc.
38 (portability)
40 * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
41 understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
42 encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead
43 of "ISO-8859-1").
45 * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
46 SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.
48 * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.
50 (performance)
52 * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.
54 * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
55 to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.
57 (usability, bells and whistles)
59 * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
60 is added to the index.
62 * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.
64 * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
65 to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
66 already known to be untestable.
68 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion
70 * "git fast-export" learned to handle history simplification more
71 gracefully.
73 * "git fast-export" learned an option --tag-of-filtered-object to handle
74 dangling tags resulting from history simplification more usefully.
76 * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
77 same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.
79 * https transport can optionally be told that the used client
80 certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
81 password only once.
83 * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.
85 * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines
86 when able.
88 * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
89 refs/* prefix.
91 * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
92 using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching
93 and pushing can be different.
95 * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
96 have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
98 * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
99 variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
101 * "git show-branch" can color its output.
103 * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
104 option to use local clone with references.
106 * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
107 out submodules by rebasing the local changes.
109 * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.
111 (developers)
113 * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
115 * Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported.
117 Fixes since v1.6.3
118 ------------------
120 All of the fixes in v1.6.3.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 v1.6.3.X series.
126 * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
127 the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
128 directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
129 to backport this fix.
131 * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
132 that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
133 as an absolute path when autodetected.
135 * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its
136 section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost
137 that variable definition.
139 * "git rebase -p --onto" used to always leave side branches of a merge
140 intact, even when both branches are subject to rewriting.
142 * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true
143 parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit.
144 After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting
145 the repository.
147 * "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion.