1GIT v1.6.3 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 25In a future release, the default of "git push" without further 26arguments might be changed. Currently, it will push all matching 27refspecs to the current remote. A configuration variable push.default 28has been introduced to select the default behaviour. To ease the 29transition, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a 30git push without arguments is attempted. 31 32 33Updates since v1.6.2 34-------------------- 35 36(subsystems) 37 38(performance) 39 40(usability, bells and whistles) 41 42* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be 43 spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring 44 is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. 45 46* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit". 47 48* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks 49 with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to 50 tell git not to apply it. 51 52* git-archive learned --output=<file> option. 53 54* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness 55 is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. 56 57* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in 58 interest of each tracked remote repository. 59 60* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file 61 directly. 62 63* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, 64 format.attach. 65 66* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily 67 disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. 68 69* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a 70 descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase 71 option. 72 73* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before 74 sending the messages out. 75 76(developers) 77 78* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. 79 80 81Fixes since v1.6.2 82------------------ 83 84All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this 85release, unless otherwise noted. 86 87Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 88v1.6.2.X series. 89 90* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for 91 comment introduction character "#" (backport by merging dd482ee if 92 needed). 93 94* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that 95 are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months 96 ago", and "N years ago" (backport by picking 10edf37 if needed). 97 98* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames (backport by picking 99 8851f48 if needed). 100 101* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the 102 correct .git directory (backport by merging 272459a if needed). 103 104* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses 105 (backport by merging afe756c if needed). 106 107--- 108exec >/var/tmp/1 109O=v1.6.2-77-g8cc3fe4 110echo O=$(git describe master) 111git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint