1GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is 5currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose 6what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration 7variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. 8 9To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a 10push running this release will issue a big warning when the 11configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: 12 13 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare 14 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 15 16for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the 17transition plan. 18 19For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch 20$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current 21branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what 22should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable 23receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. 24 25 26Updates since v1.6.3 27-------------------- 28 29(subsystems) 30 31 * gitweb Perl style clean-up. 32 33 * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author 34 names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind 35 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, etc. 36 37(portability) 38 39 * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is 40 understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use 41 encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead 42 of "ISO-8859-1"). 43 44 * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of 45 SunOS, IRIX, and Windows. 46 47 * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink. 48 49(performance) 50 51 * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath. 52 53 * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized 54 to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index. 55 56(usability, bells and whistles) 57 58 * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what 59 is added to the index. 60 61 * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input. 62 63 * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope 64 to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is 65 already known to be untestable. 66 67 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion 68 69 * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the 70 same context hunk marker "git diff" uses. 71 72 * https transport can optionally be told that the used client 73 certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the 74 password only once. 75 76 * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware. 77 78 * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines 79 when able. 80 81 * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known 82 refs/* prefix. 83 84 * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before 85 using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching 86 and pushing can be different. 87 88 * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might 89 have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). 90 91 * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration 92 variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from"). 93 94 * "git show-branch" can color its output. 95 96 * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference 97 option to use local clone with references. 98 99 * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked 100 out submodules by rebasing the local changes. 101 102 * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names. 103 104(developers) 105 106 * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. 107 108Fixes since v1.6.3 109------------------ 110 111All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this 112release, unless otherwise noted. 113 114Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 115v1.6.3.X series. 116 117 * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from 118 the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed 119 directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked 120 to backport this fix. 121 122 * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers 123 that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location 124 as an absolute path when autodetected. 125 126 * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its 127 section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost 128 that variable definition. 129 130 * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true 131 parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit. 132 After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting 133 the repository. 134 135 * "git send-email" did not detect errorneous loops in alias expansion. 136 137--- 138exec >/var/tmp/1 139echo O=$(git describe master) 140O=v1.6.4-rc2-17-g130b04a 141git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint