1GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.6.0 5-------------------- 6 7When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we 8used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces 9output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the 10pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the 11processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now 12on. 13 14(subsystems) 15 16* gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn 17 can run gitk from its blame view. 18 19(portability) 20 21* ... 22 23(documentation) 24 25* ... 26 27(performance) 28 29* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been 30 optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing. 31 32* Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers) 33 can be run in parallel. 34 35* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of 36 refs has been optimized. 37 38(usability, bells and whistles) 39 40* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses 41 you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set 42 to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely 43 guess. 44 45* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of 46 merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad. 47 48* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now 49 DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you 50 said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". 51 52* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution. 53 54* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing 55 commits. 56 57* "git count-objects" reports the on-disk footprint for packfiles and 58 their corresponding idx files. 59 60* "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option. 61 62* "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a 63 configuration option. 64 65* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and 66 HTML contents. 67 68* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are 69 being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration. 70 71* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an 72 unambiguously abbreviated refname. 73 74* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before 75 using "man" program. 76 77* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL. 78 79* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while 80 completing a thin pack. 81 82* "git log --check" and "git log --exit-code" passes their underlying diff 83 status with their exit status code. 84 85* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history; 86 "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history. 87 88* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts 89 names of tags that point at the commit. 90 91* "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are 92 noticed as user errors. 93 94* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a 95 command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH. 96 97* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire 98 refs/heads/branch". 99 100* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked 101 out submodules. 102 103* "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL 104 recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file. 105 106(internal) 107 108* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that 109 correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents 110 stored in a temporary file. 111 112Fixes since v1.6.0 113------------------ 114 115All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this 116release, unless otherwise noted. 117 118* "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S 119 is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in 120 it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F 121 is a path in it). 122 123* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them, 124 but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has 125 been resurrected. 126 127* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. 128 129* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without 130 telling saying these two options are incompatible. 131 132* "git log --author/--committer" match used to potentially match the 133 timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did 134 not work with --fixed-strings match at all. 135 136-- 137exec >/var/tmp/1 138O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35 139echo O=$(git describe master) 140git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint