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   1GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes
   2========================
   3
   4With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
   5currently checked out will be refused by default.  You can choose
   6what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
   7variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.
   8
   9To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
  10push running this release will issue a big warning when the
  11configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
  12
  13  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
  14  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
  15
  16for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
  17transition plan.
  18
  19For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
  20$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
  21branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning.  You can choose what
  22should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
  23receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
  24
  25
  26Updates since v1.6.3
  27--------------------
  28
  29(subsystems)
  30
  31 * gitweb Perl style clean-up.
  32
  33 * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
  34   names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
  35   'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, etc.
  36
  37(portability)
  38
  39 * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
  40   understood more widely.  Similarly updated test scripts to use
  41   encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead
  42   of "ISO-8859-1").
  43
  44 * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
  45   SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.
  46
  47 * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.
  48
  49(performance)
  50
  51 * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.
  52
  53 * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
  54   to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.
  55
  56(usability, bells and whistles)
  57
  58 * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
  59   is added to the index.
  60
  61 * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.
  62
  63 * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
  64   to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
  65   already known to be untestable.
  66
  67 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion
  68
  69 * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
  70   same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.
  71
  72 * https transport can optionally be told that the used client
  73   certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
  74   password only once.
  75
  76 * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.
  77
  78 * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
  79   when able.
  80
  81 * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
  82   refs/* prefix.
  83
  84 * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
  85   using remote.$name.url.  In other words, the URL used for fetching
  86   and pushing can be different.
  87
  88 * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
  89   have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
  90
  91 * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
  92   variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
  93
  94 * "git show-branch" can color its output.
  95
  96 * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
  97   option to use local clone with references.
  98
  99 * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
 100   out submodules by rebasing the local changes.
 101
 102 * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.
 103
 104(developers)
 105
 106 * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
 107
 108Fixes since v1.6.3
 109------------------
 110
 111All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this
 112release, unless otherwise noted.
 113
 114Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
 115v1.6.3.X series.
 116
 117 * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
 118   the output.  df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
 119   directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
 120   to backport this fix.
 121
 122 * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
 123   that chdir around.  It now internally records the repository location
 124   as an absolute path when autodetected.
 125
 126 * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its
 127   section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost
 128   that variable definition.
 129
 130 * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true
 131   parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit.
 132   After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting
 133   the repository.
 134
 135 * "git send-email" did not detect errorneous loops in alias expansion.
 136
 137---
 138exec >/var/tmp/1
 139echo O=$(git describe master)
 140O=v1.6.4-rc2-17-g130b04a
 141git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint