1GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "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 v1.6.4 31-------------------- 32 33(subsystems) 34 35 * various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb. 36 37(portability) 38 39 * more improvements on mingw port. 40 41 * mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS 42 environment variable when the user does not have one. 43 44 * initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC. 45 46(performance) 47 48 * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's 49 block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which 50 outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from 51 Mozilla. 52 53 * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has 54 been removed. 55 56 * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged 57 in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing 58 commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now 59 implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we 60 used to. 61 62 * "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to 63 newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files, 64 but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the 65 cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid 66 this issue. 67 68(usability, bells and whistles) 69 70 * Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday, 71 master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly. 72 73 * A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated 74 people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow 75 users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages 76 can be silenced now. 77 78 * refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement 79 of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be 80 transferred across repositories. 81 82 * "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences. 83 84 * "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly. 85 86 * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part 87 of an incoming e-mail. 88 89 * "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to 90 use with an explicit "--format=zip".option. 91 92 * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and 93 choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p". 94 95 * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out 96 different from the remote's default branch. 97 98 * "git clone" learned --recursive option. 99 100 * "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to 101 copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving 102 them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed. 103 104 * "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would 105 happen if I try to commit with these arguments." 106 107 * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a 108 separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge. 109 110 * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even 111 when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file. 112 113 * "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when 114 reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of 115 blobs. 116 117 * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area. 118 119 * "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an 120 extra argument (i.e. "git init this"). 121 122 * "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server. 123 124 * "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to 125 give the reference name in full. 126 127 * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected 128 that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local 129 uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it 130 clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm. 131 132 * "git push" can be told to be --quiet. 133 134 * "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL 135 that is derived from the URL used for fetching. 136 137 * informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified 138 paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch". 139 140 * "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with 141 "foreach" subcommand. 142 143 * various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option. 144 145 * "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work 146 tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing 147 the index. 148 149 * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and 150 "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes. 151 152(developers) 153 154 * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the 155 source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround. 156 157 158Fixes since v1.6.4 159------------------ 160 161# All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this 162# release, unless otherwise noted. 163 164# Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 165# v1.6.4.X series. 166 167-- 168exec >/var/tmp/1 169O=v1.6.5-rc1-44-ga16753d 170echo O=$(git describe master) 171git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint