(subsystems)
- * various updates to git-svn and gitweb.
+ * various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb.
(portability)
* more improvements on mingw port.
+ * mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS
+ environment variable when the user does not have one.
+
+ * initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC.
+
(performance)
* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
- Mozzilla.
+ Mozilla.
* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
been removed.
+ * "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e.
+ referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags
+ hierarchy) anymore.
+
+ * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged
+ in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing
+ commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now
+ implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we
+ used to.
+
+ * "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to
+ newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files,
+ but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the
+ cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid
+ this issue.
+
(usability, bells and whistles)
* Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday,
master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly.
+ * A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated
+ people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow
+ users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages
+ can be silenced now.
+
* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
transferred across repositories.
* "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
of an incoming e-mail.
+ * "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to
+ use with an explicit "--format=zip".option.
+
* "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".
* "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
different from the remote's default branch.
+ * "git clone" learned --recursive option.
+
+ * "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to
+ copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving
+ them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed.
+
* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
blobs.
+ * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area.
+
* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
give the reference name in full.
+ * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected
+ that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local
+ uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it
+ clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm.
+
* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
+ * "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL
+ that is derived from the URL used for fetching.
+
* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
* With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
+ * With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can
+ build for one location, and install into another location to tar it
+ up.
Fixes since v1.6.4
------------------
-# All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
-# release, unless otherwise noted.
-
-# Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
-# v1.6.4.X series.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint
+All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
+release, unless otherwise noted.