should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
+When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
+pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
+configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
+changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
+a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
+arguments is attempted.
+
Updates since v1.6.2
--------------------
(performance)
+* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
+ optimized out.
+
(usability, bells and whistles)
+* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
+ repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
+ testing.
+
+* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
+ pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
+
+* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
+ be handled appropriately in Windows console.
+
* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
+* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
+
* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option.
+* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
+
* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
sending the messages out.
* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
+* Test scripts can be run with installed git.
+
* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
coverage tracking enabled.
+* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now
+ requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug.
+ This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems
+ with newer versions of docbook-xsl.
+
Fixes since v1.6.2
------------------
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.2.X series.
-* 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the
- path it accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient
- (if needed, backport by merging db75ada).
+* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
+ file that is being checked out.
* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2-149-g6462146
+O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint