1GIT v1.6.6 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.6, "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 v1.6.5 31-------------------- 32 33(subsystems) 34 35(portability) 36 37(performance) 38 39(usability, bells and whistles) 40 41 * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well. 42 43(developers) 44 45Fixes since v1.6.5 46------------------ 47 48All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this 49release, unless otherwise noted. 50 51 * "git apply" and "git diff" (including patch output from "git log -p") 52 now flags trailing blank lines as whitespace errors correctly (only 53 "apply --whitespace=fix" stripped them but "apply --whitespace=warn" 54 did not even warn). 55 56 * Two whitespace error classes, 'blank-at-eof' and 'blank-at-eol', have 57 been introduced (settable by core.whitespace configuration variable and 58 whitespace attribute). The 'trailing-space' whitespace error class has 59 become a short-hand to cover both of these and there is no behaviour 60 change for existing set-ups.