1GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git push" 5into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by default. 6 7You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the 8configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving 9repository. 10 11Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote 12repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by 13its HEAD, will be refused by default. 14 15You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the 16configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving 17repository. 18 19To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a 20push running this release will issue a big warning when the 21configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: 22 23 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare 24 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 25 26for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the 27transition plan. 28 29Updates since v1.6.4 30-------------------- 31 32(subsystems) 33 34 * various updates to git-svn and gitweb. 35 36(portability) 37 38 * more improvements on mingw port. 39 40(performance) 41 42 * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's 43 block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which 44 outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from 45 Mozzilla. 46 47(usability, bells and whistles) 48 49 * refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement 50 of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be 51 transferred across repositories. 52 53 * "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences. 54 55 * "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly. 56 57 * "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would 58 happen if I try to commit with these arguments." 59 60 * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access. 61 62 * "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when 63 reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of 64 blobs. 65 66 * "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an 67 extra argument (i.e. "git init this"). 68 69 * "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server. 70 71 * "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to 72 give the reference name in full. 73 74 * "git push" can be told to be --quiet. 75 76 * informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified 77 paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch". 78 79 * "git status" gives more descriptive output for unmerged paths. 80 81 * "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with 82 "foreach" subcommand. 83 84 * various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option. 85 86 * "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work 87 tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing 88 the index. 89 90(developers) 91 92 * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the 93 source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround. 94 95 96Fixes since v1.6.4 97------------------ 98 99# All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this 100# release, unless otherwise noted. 101 102# Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 103# v1.6.4.X series. 104 105-- 106exec >/var/tmp/1 107O=v1.6.4.1-266-g235db15 108echo O=$(git describe master) 109git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint