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* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in 73 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few 74 commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname". 75 76* git-archive learned --output=<file> option. 77 78* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly 79 speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one. 80 Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from 81 the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads 82 attributes from the work tree). 83 84* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness 85 is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. 86 87* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame. 88 89* "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in 90 interest of each tracked remote repository. 91 92* "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the 93 "upstream" branch for them. 94 95* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file 96 directly. 97 98* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout. 99 100* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily 101 maintained by David Aguilar. 102 103* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token. 104 105* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, 106 format.attach. 107 108* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. 109 110* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration 111 variable. 112 113* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra 114 header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing 115 --add-header=<header> option of the command. 116 117* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when 118 told to send patches as attachments. 119 120* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. 121 122* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily 123 disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. 124 125* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a 126 descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase 127 option. 128 129* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option. 130 131* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. 132 133* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and 134 then prunes stale tracking branches. 135 136* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before 137 sending the messages out. 138 139(developers) 140 141* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. 142 143* Test scripts can be run with installed git. 144 145* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with 146 coverage tracking enabled. 147 148* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now 149 requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug. 150 This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems 151 with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more 152 knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the 153 docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. 154 155* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a 156 working perl has been improved. 157 158 159Fixes since v1.6.2 160------------------ 161 162All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this 163release, unless otherwise noted. 164 165Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 166v1.6.2.X series. 167 168* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B 169 and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry 170 picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee). 171 172* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute 173 file that is being checked out. 174 175* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears 176 in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a). 177 178--- 179exec >/var/tmp/1 180O=v1.6.3-rc2 181echo O=$(git describe master) 182git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint