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 25When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always 26pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new 27configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow 28changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, 29a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without 30arguments is attempted. 31 32 33Updates since v1.6.3 34-------------------- 35 36(subsystems) 37 38 * gitweb Perl style clean-up. 39 40 * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author 41 names by invoking an external program. 42 43(portability) 44 45 * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is 46 understood more widely. 47 48(performance) 49 50(usability, bells and whistles) 51 52 * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what 53 is added to the index. 54 55 * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines 56 when able. 57 58 * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known 59 refs/* prefix. 60 61 * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might 62 have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). 63 64 * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration 65 variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from"). 66 67 * "git show-branch" can color its output. 68 69 * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference 70 option to use local clone with references. 71 72(developers) 73 74 * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. 75 76Fixes since v1.6.3 77------------------ 78 79All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this 80release, unless otherwise noted. 81 82Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 83v1.6.3.X series. 84 85 * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers 86 that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location 87 as an absolute path when autodetected. 88 89--- 90exec >/var/tmp/1 91echo O=$(git describe master) 92O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa 93git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint