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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.
27 Updates since v1.5.6
28 --------------------
30 (subsystems)
32 * git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
33 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
35 (portability)
37 * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
38 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
39 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
40 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
41 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
42 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
44 * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
45 some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
47 (documentation)
49 * Updated howto/update-hook-example
51 * Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
53 * Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
55 (performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
57 * even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
59 * reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
61 * verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
63 * When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
64 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
65 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
66 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
67 objects are available.
69 * git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
70 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
71 repositories with insanely large number of refs.
73 * core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
74 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
75 that does not order data writes properly).
77 * "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
78 "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.
80 (usability, bells and whistles)
82 * git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
83 much better than before.
85 * git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
86 patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
88 * git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
89 export-ignore attributes.
91 * git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
92 configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
94 * git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
96 * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
97 it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
98 branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
99 pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
100 of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
102 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
103 interface with fast-import incrementally.
105 * Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
107 * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
109 * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
110 untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
112 * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
113 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
115 (internal)
118 Fixes since v1.5.6
119 ------------------
121 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
122 this release, unless otherwise noted.
124 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
125 boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
127 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
128 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
130 ---
131 exec >/var/tmp/1
132 O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2
133 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
134 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint