1GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git 5push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by 6default. 7 8You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the 9configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving 10repository. 11 12Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote 13repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by 14its HEAD, will be refused by default. 15 16You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the 17configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving 18repository. 19 20To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a 21push running this release will issue a big warning when the 22configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: 23 24 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare 25 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 26 27for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the 28transition plan. 29 30Updates since v1.6.4 31-------------------- 32 33(subsystems) 34 35 * various updates to git-svn and gitweb. 36 37(portability) 38 39 * more improvements on mingw port. 40 41(performance) 42 43 * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's 44 block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which 45 outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from 46 Mozzilla. 47 48 * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has 49 been removed. 50 51(usability, bells and whistles) 52 53 * Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday, 54 master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly. 55 56 * refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement 57 of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be 58 transferred across repositories. 59 60 * "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences. 61 62 * "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly. 63 64 * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part 65 of an incoming e-mail. 66 67 * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and 68 choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p". 69 70 * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out 71 different from the remote's default branch. 72 73 * "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would 74 happen if I try to commit with these arguments." 75 76 * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a 77 separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge. 78 79 * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even 80 when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file. 81 82 * "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when 83 reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of 84 blobs. 85 86 * "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an 87 extra argument (i.e. "git init this"). 88 89 * "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server. 90 91 * "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to 92 give the reference name in full. 93 94 * "git push" can be told to be --quiet. 95 96 * informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified 97 paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch". 98 99 * "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with 100 "foreach" subcommand. 101 102 * various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option. 103 104 * "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work 105 tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing 106 the index. 107 108 * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and 109 "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes. 110 111(developers) 112 113 * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the 114 source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround. 115 116 117Fixes since v1.6.4 118------------------ 119 120# All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this 121# release, unless otherwise noted. 122 123# Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 124# v1.6.4.X series. 125 126-- 127exec >/var/tmp/1 128O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c 129echo O=$(git describe master) 130git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint