1GIT v1.6.3 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 25When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always 26pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new 27configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow 28changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, 29a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without 30arguments is attempted. 31 32 33Updates since v1.6.2 34-------------------- 35 36(subsystems) 37 38* various git-svn updates. 39 40(performance) 41 42* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been 43 optimized out. 44 45(usability, bells and whistles) 46 47* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off. 48 49* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local 50 repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for 51 testing. 52 53* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or 54 pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL. 55 56* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can 57 be handled appropriately in Windows console. 58 59* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be 60 spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring 61 is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. 62 63* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit". 64 65* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph 66 in colors. 67 68* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks 69 with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to 70 tell git not to apply it. 71 72* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream" 73 messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge 74 commits; now it doesn't. 75 76* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in 77 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few 78 commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname". 79 80* git-archive learned --output=<file> option. 81 82* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly 83 speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one. 84 Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from 85 the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads 86 attributes from the work tree). 87 88* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness 89 is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. 90 91* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame. 92 93* "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in 94 interest of each tracked remote repository. 95 96* "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the 97 "upstream" branch for them. 98 99* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file 100 directly. 101 102* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout. 103 104* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily 105 maintained by David Aguilar. 106 107* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token. 108 109* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, 110 format.attach. 111 112* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. 113 114* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration 115 variable. 116 117* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra 118 header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing 119 --add-header=<header> option of the command. 120 121* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when 122 told to send patches as attachments. 123 124* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. 125 126* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily 127 disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. 128 129* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a 130 descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase 131 option. 132 133* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option. 134 135* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. 136 137* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and 138 then prunes stale tracking branches. 139 140* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before 141 sending the messages out. 142 143(developers) 144 145* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. 146 147* Test scripts can be run with installed git. 148 149* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with 150 coverage tracking enabled. 151 152* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now 153 requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug. 154 This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems 155 with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more 156 knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the 157 docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. 158 159Fixes since v1.6.2 160------------------ 161 162All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this 163release, unless otherwise noted. 164 165Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 166v1.6.2.X series. 167 168* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B 169 and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry 170 picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee). 171 172* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute 173 file that is being checked out. 174 175* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears 176 in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). 177 178--- 179exec >/var/tmp/1 180O=v1.6.3-rc1-1-gea10b60 181echo O=$(git describe master) 182git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint