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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 the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
11 installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
12 some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
13 reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
14 line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
15 1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
16 output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
17 release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
18 scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
19 "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
21 Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
22 main git.git codebase.
25 Updates since v1.5.6
26 --------------------
28 (subsystems)
30 * git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
31 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
33 (portability)
35 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
36 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
37 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
38 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
39 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
40 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
42 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
43 some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
45 (documentation)
47 * Updated howto/update-hook-example
49 * Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
51 * Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
53 (performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
55 * even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
57 * reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
59 * verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
61 * When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
62 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
63 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
64 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
65 objects are available.
67 * git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
68 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
69 repositories with insanely large number of refs.
71 * core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
72 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
73 that does not order data writes properly).
75 * "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
76 "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.
78 (usability, bells and whistles)
80 * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
81 export-ignore attributes.
83 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
84 interface with fast-import incrementally.
86 * Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
88 * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
89 untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
91 * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
92 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
94 (internal)
97 Fixes since v1.5.6
98 ------------------
100 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
101 this release, unless otherwise noted.
103 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
104 boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
106 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
107 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
109 ---
110 exec >/var/tmp/1
111 O=v1.5.6.1-104-ga08b868
112 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
113 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint