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1 GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 User visible changes
5 --------------------
7 [[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing
8 but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]]
10 With default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now installed
11 outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and some server
12 side programs that needs to be accessible when connecting over ssh.
14 When talking to remote repository over ssh, necessary server side programs
15 are now invoked with "git $program" notation, not with "git-$program"
16 notation. This should work with both servers running older git where you
17 had all of these programs installed on $PATH, or newer git where you have
18 only "git" on $PATH. However, if the remote side is running a custom
19 software that restricts programs you can run over ssh, it might cause
20 problems. Use --upload-pack="git-upload-pack" (when using ls-remote,
21 fetch and pull on the client side), --receive-pack="git-receive-pack"
22 (when using push on the client side), or --exec="git-upload-archive" (when
23 using git-archive) as appropriate when talking to such a remote.
25 Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
26 main git.git codebase.
29 Updates since v1.5.6
30 --------------------
32 (subsystems)
34 (portability)
36 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
37 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
38 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
39 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
40 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
41 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
43 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
44 some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
46 (documentation)
48 * Updated howto/update-hook-example
50 (performance, robustness etc.)
52 * reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
54 * verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
56 * When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
57 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
58 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
59 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
60 objects are available.
62 * git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
63 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
64 repositories with insanely large number of refs.
66 * core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
67 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
68 that does not order data writes properly).
70 (usability, bells and whistles)
72 * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
73 export-ignore attributes.
75 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
76 interface with fast-import incrementally.
78 * Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
80 * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
81 untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
83 * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
84 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
86 (internal)
89 Fixes since v1.5.6
90 ------------------
92 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
93 this release, unless otherwise noted.
95 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
96 boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
98 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
99 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
101 ---
102 exec >/var/tmp/1
103 O=v1.5.6.1-77-gf9a08f6
104 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
105 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint