1GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4User visible changes 5-------------------- 6 7With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now 8installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and 9some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical 10reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command 11line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in 121.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding 13output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this 14release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their 15scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing 16"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases. 17 18Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the 19main git.git codebase. 20 21By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset 22encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that 23allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, 24introduced in v1.5.2. 25 26 27Updates since v1.5.6 28-------------------- 29 30(subsystems) 31 32* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on 33 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. 34 35(portability) 36 37* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with 38 *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by 39 relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on 40 some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running 41 "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples 42 as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix. 43 44* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows; 45 some tests are rewritten to cope with this. 46 47(documentation) 48 49* Updated howto/update-hook-example 50 51* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial. 52 53* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. 54 55(performance, robustness, sanity etc.) 56 57* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help". 58 59* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary. 60 61* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files. 62 63* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even 64 when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to 65 fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git 66 repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary 67 objects are available. 68 69* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as 70 if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help 71 repositories with insanely large number of refs. 72 73* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose 74 objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems 75 that does not order data writes properly). 76 77* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents. 78 "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time. 79 80(usability, bells and whistles) 81 82* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once 83 much better than before. 84 85* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input 86 patch but recount, with the new --recount option. 87 88* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using 89 export-ignore attributes. 90 91* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by 92 configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. 93 94* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers. 95 96* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now 97 it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking 98 branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest 99 pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set 100 of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. 101 102* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to 103 interface with fast-import incrementally. 104 105* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. 106 107* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. 108 109* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking 110 untracked files with --untracked-files=no. 111 112* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather 113 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. 114 115(internal) 116 117 118Fixes since v1.5.6 119------------------ 120 121All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in 122this release, unless otherwise noted. 123 124 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context 125 boundary (needs backmerge to maint). 126 127 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst> 128 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint). 129 130--- 131exec >/var/tmp/1 132O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2 133echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master) 134git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint