1 What's in git.git (Jul 2008, issue #01; Tue, 01)
3 maint 7ad0f27 (Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2, 2008-07-01)
4 master e903b40 (Update draft release notes for 1.6.0, 2008-07-01)
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7 There are a few fixes on 'maint', in addition to futureproofing of "git
8 shell" so that eventually we can update the ssh clients to ask for server
9 side programs using "git upload-pack" syntax without a dash between "git"
10 and the subcommand name.
12 Many of the medimu size items for 1.6.0 have been merged to 'master'. The
13 port to MinGW series will also be merged shortly.
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17 GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes (draft)
18 ================================
23 With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
24 installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
25 some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
26 reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
27 line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
28 1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
29 output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
30 release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
31 scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
32 "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
34 Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
35 main git.git codebase.
37 By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
38 encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
39 allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
48 * git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
49 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
53 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
54 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
55 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
56 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
57 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
58 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
60 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
61 some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
65 * Updated howto/update-hook-example
67 * Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
69 * Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
71 (performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
73 * even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
75 * reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
77 * verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
79 * When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
80 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
81 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
82 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
83 objects are available.
85 * git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
86 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
87 repositories with insanely large number of refs.
89 * core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
90 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
91 that does not order data writes properly).
93 * "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
94 "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.
96 (usability, bells and whistles)
98 * git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
99 much better than before.
101 * git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
102 patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
104 * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
105 export-ignore attributes.
107 * git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
108 configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
110 * git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
112 * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
113 it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
114 branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
115 pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
116 of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
118 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
119 interface with fast-import incrementally.
121 * Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
123 * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
125 * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
126 untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
128 * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
129 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
137 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
138 this release, unless otherwise noted.
140 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
141 boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
143 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
144 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
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149 * The 'maint' branch has these fixes since v1.5.6.1.
152 git-svn: avoid filling up the disk with temp files.
154 Björn Steinbrink (1):
155 git cat-file: Fix memory leak in batch mode
158 git-svn: don't sanitize remote names in config
161 doc/rev-parse: clarify reflog vs --until for specifying revisions
164 avoid off-by-one error in run_upload_archive
167 fix git config example syntax
170 diff --check: do not discard error status upon seeing a good line
171 git-shell: accept "git foo" form
174 Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2
177 Fix 'git show' on signed tag of signed tag of commit
180 * The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement
181 in addition to the above.
184 Fix use of "perl -i" on Windows
187 Fix t4017-diff-retval for white-space from wc
188 Add test results directory to t/.gitignore
190 Christian Couder (1):
191 help: check early if we have a command, if not try a documentation topic
194 update-hook-example: optionally allow non-fast-forward
195 shrink git-shell by avoiding redundant dependencies
198 git-apply: handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
202 improve for-each-ref test script
203 fetch: report local storage errors in status table
204 fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to update
207 Add 'git-p4.allowSubmit' to git-p4
210 Incorporate fetched packs in future object traversal
211 Move pack_refs() and friends into libgit
212 Prepare testsuite for a "git clone" that packs refs
213 Teach "git clone" to pack refs
215 Johannes Schindelin (4):
216 clone: respect url.insteadOf setting in global configs
217 commit-tree: lift completely arbitrary limit of 16 parents
218 Allow git-apply to recount the lines in a hunk (AKA recountdiff)
219 clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig
222 Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pages
223 whitespace fix in Documentation/git-repack.txt
224 Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"
225 git-daemon(1): don't assume git-daemon is in /usr/bin
226 Documentation: prepare to be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
227 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
228 Documentation formatting and cleanup
231 git-shell: accept "git foo" form
232 Prepare execv_git_cmd() for removal of builtins from the filesystem
233 Keep some git-* programs in $(bindir)
234 Allow "git-reset path" when unambiguous
235 Start draft release notes for 1.6.0
236 diff --check: explain why we do not care whether old side is binary
237 check_and_emit_line(): rename and refactor
238 checkdiff: pass diff_options to the callback
239 Teach "diff --check" about new blank lines at end
240 diff --check: detect leftover conflict markers
241 Update sample pre-commit hook to use "diff --check"
242 Document the double-dash "rev -- path" disambiguator
243 t9700: skip when Test::More is not available
244 Update draft release notes for 1.6.0
245 Update draft release notes for 1.6.0
248 git-send-email: Accept fifos as well as files
251 t/test-lib.sh: add test_external and test_external_without_stderr
252 Git.pm: add test suite
253 gitweb: standarize HTTP status codes
254 test-lib.sh: show git init output when in verbose mode
255 GIT-VERSION-GEN: do not fail if a 'HEAD' file exists in the working copy
258 Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
259 Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
260 Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
261 Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
264 A simple script to parse the results from the testcases
266 Nanako Shiraishi (1):
267 gitcli: Document meaning of --cached and --index
269 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
270 Move all dashed-form commands to libexecdir
273 repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option now defaults to "true"
274 pack.indexversion config option now defaults to 2
277 Documentation: remove {show,whatchanged}.difftree config options
278 show_stats(): fix stats width calculation
281 Remove the use of '--' in merge program invocation
284 api-builtin.txt: update and fix typo
285 t3404: stricter tests for git-rebase--interactive
287 Sverre Rabbelier (2):
288 Modify test-lib.sh to output stats to t/test-results/*
289 Hook up the result aggregation in the test makefile.
292 Don't use dash commands (git-foo) in tutorial-2
295 git-send-email: add support for TLS via Net::SMTP::SSL
296 git-send-email: prevent undefined variable warnings if no encryption is
299 jrnieder@uchicago.edu (1):
300 Documentation: don't assume git-sh-setup and git-parse-remote are in PATH