1GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4User visible changes 5-------------------- 6 7[[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing 8but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]] 9 10With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now 11installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and 12some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical 13reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command 14line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in 151.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding 16output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this 17release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their 18scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing 19"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases. 20 21Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the 22main git.git codebase. 23 24 25Updates since v1.5.6 26-------------------- 27 28(subsystems) 29 30* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on 31 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. 32 33(portability) 34 35* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with 36 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by 37 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on 38 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running 39 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples 40 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix. 41 42* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows; 43 some tests are rewritten to cope with this. 44 45(documentation) 46 47* Updated howto/update-hook-example 48 49* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial. 50 51* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. 52 53(performance, robustness, sanity etc.) 54 55* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help". 56 57* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary. 58 59* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files. 60 61* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even 62 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to 63 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git 64 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary 65 objects are available. 66 67* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as 68 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help 69 repositories with insanely large number of refs. 70 71* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose 72 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems 73 that does not order data writes properly). 74 75* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents. 76 "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time. 77 78(usability, bells and whistles) 79 80* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using 81 export-ignore attributes. 82 83* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to 84 interface with fast-import incrementally. 85 86* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. 87 88* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking 89 untracked files with --untracked-files=no. 90 91* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather 92 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. 93 94(internal) 95 96 97Fixes since v1.5.6 98------------------ 99 100All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in 101this release, unless otherwise noted. 102 103 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context 104 boundary (needs backmerge to maint). 105 106 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst> 107 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint). 108 109--- 110exec >/var/tmp/1 111O=v1.5.6.1-104-ga08b868 112echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master) 113git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint