1 GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
2 ========================
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,
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.
37 * git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
38 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
42 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
43 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
44 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
45 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
46 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
47 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
49 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
50 some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
54 * Updated howto/update-hook-example
56 * Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
58 * Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
60 (performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
62 * even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
64 * reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
66 * verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
68 * When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
69 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
70 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
71 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
72 objects are available.
74 * git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
75 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
76 repositories with insanely large number of refs.
78 * core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
79 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
80 that does not order data writes properly).
82 * "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
83 "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.
85 (usability, bells and whistles)
87 * git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
88 much better than before.
90 * git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
91 patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
93 * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
94 export-ignore attributes.
96 * git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
97 configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
99 * git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
101 * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
102 it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
103 branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
104 pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
105 of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
107 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
108 interface with fast-import incrementally.
110 * Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
112 * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
114 * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
115 untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
117 * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
118 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
126 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
127 this release, unless otherwise noted.
129 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
130 boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
132 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
133 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
137 O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2
138 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
139 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint