1GIT v1.6.6 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and checks 5packfiles, and because of this it will take much longer to complete 6than before. If you prefer a quicker check only on loose objects (the 7old default), you can say "git fsck --no-full". This has been 8supported by 1.5.4 and newer versions of git, so it is safe to write 9it in your script even if you use slightly older git on some of your 10machines. 11 12In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.6, "git 13push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by 14default. 15 16You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the 17configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving 18repository. 19 20Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote 21repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by 22its HEAD, will be refused by default. 23 24You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the 25configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving 26repository. 27 28To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a 29push running this release will issue a big warning when the 30configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: 31 32 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare 33 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 34 35for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the 36transition plan. 37 38Updates since v1.6.5 39-------------------- 40 41(subsystems) 42 43(portability) 44 45(performance) 46 47(usability, bells and whistles) 48 49 * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects 50 global option given to the "git" program. 51 52 * "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the 53 default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full". 54 55 * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of 56 compressed tarballs. 57 58 * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2. 59 60 * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well. 61 62 * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately 63 starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to 64 the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the 65 contents. 66 67 * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the 68 author. 69 70 71(developers) 72 73Fixes since v1.6.5 74------------------ 75 76All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this 77release, unless otherwise noted. 78 79 * "git apply" and "git diff" (including patch output from "git log -p") 80 now flags trailing blank lines as whitespace errors correctly (only 81 "apply --whitespace=fix" stripped them but "apply --whitespace=warn" 82 did not even warn). 83 84 * Two whitespace error classes, 'blank-at-eof' and 'blank-at-eol', have 85 been introduced (settable by core.whitespace configuration variable and 86 whitespace attribute). The 'trailing-space' whitespace error class has 87 become a short-hand to cover both of these and there is no behaviour 88 change for existing set-ups. 89 90 * "git cvsimport" did not work well when it is fed filenames from the 91 command line and is not started at the top of the work tree. We should 92 backport this by merging f6fdbb6 (cvsimport: fix relative argument 93 filenames, 2009-10-19). 94 95 * The way gitweb escapes its CGI parameters were broken especially when 96 the parameter was a UTF-8 string. We may want to backport this to 97 1.6.5.X series by merging 452e225 (gitweb: fix esc_param, 2009-10-13). 98 99 * gitweb used to show 'patch' link for merge commits but the output from 100 it is not usable to feed "git am" with. We may want to backport this 101 to 1.6.5.X series by merging 1655c98 (gitweb: Do not show 'patch' link 102 for merge commits, 2009-10-09). 103 104--- 105exec >/var/tmp/1 106echo O=$(git describe master) 107O=v1.6.5.2-73-g9b12444 108git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint