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1 GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 User visible changes
5 --------------------
7 With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
8 installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
9 some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
10 reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
11 line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
12 1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
13 output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
14 release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
15 scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
16 "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
18 Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
19 main git.git codebase.
21 By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
22 encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
23 allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
24 introduced in v1.5.2.
26 GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
27 actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
28 GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
29 not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.
31 An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed.
34 Updates since v1.5.6
35 --------------------
37 (subsystems)
39 * git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
40 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
42 * git-gui learned to stage changes per-line.
44 (portability)
46 * Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and
47 gangs.
49 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
50 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
51 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
52 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
53 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
54 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
56 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
57 some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
59 (documentation)
61 * Updated howto/update-hook-example
63 * Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography
64 more consistent.
66 * Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
68 (performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
70 * even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
72 * reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
74 * verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
76 * When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
77 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
78 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
79 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
80 objects are available.
82 * git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
83 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
84 repositories with insanely large number of refs.
86 * core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
87 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
88 that does not order data writes properly).
90 * "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
91 "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.
93 (usability, bells and whistles)
95 * A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop
96 the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful
97 when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree,
98 as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places.
100 * By default, stash entries never expire. Set reflogexpire in [gc
101 "refs/stash"] to a reasonable value to get traditional auto-expiration
102 behaviour back
104 * Longstanding latency issue with bash completion script has been
105 addressed. This will need to be backmerged to 'maint' later.
107 * pager.<cmd> configuration variable can be used to enable/disable the
108 default paging behaviour per command.
110 * "git-add -i" has a new action 'e/dit' to allow you edit the patch hunk
111 manually.
113 * git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
114 much better than before.
116 * git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
117 patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
119 * git-apply can be told to apply a patch to a path deeper than what the
120 patch records with --directory option.
122 * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
123 export-ignore attributes.
125 * With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics
126 similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch
127 is ahead/behind.
129 * git-bundle can read the revision arguments from the standard input.
131 * git-cherry-pick can replay a root commit now.
133 * git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
134 configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
136 * git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
138 * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
139 it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
140 branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
141 pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
142 of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
144 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
145 interface with fast-import incrementally.
147 * "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution
148 with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable.
150 * git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it
151 encountered during the traversal, instead of shoing parent commits.
153 * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
155 * "git-stash save" learned --keep-index option. This lets you stash away the
156 local changes and bring the changes staged in the index to your working
157 tree for examination and testing.
159 * git-stash also learned branch subcommand to create a new branch out of
160 stashed changes.
162 * git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way
163 git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind.
165 * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
166 untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
168 * Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
170 * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
171 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
173 (internal)
176 Fixes since v1.5.6
177 ------------------
179 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
180 this release, unless otherwise noted.
182 * "git fetch" into an empty repository used to remind the fetch will
183 be huge by saying "no common commits", but it is already known by
184 the user anyway (need to backport 8cb560f to 'maint').
186 ---
187 exec >/var/tmp/1
188 O=v1.5.6.3-315-g10ce020
189 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
190 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint