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, documenting 36 of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc. 37 38(portability) 39 40 * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is 41 understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use 42 encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead 43 of "ISO-8859-1"). 44 45 * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of 46 SunOS, IRIX, and Windows. 47 48 * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink. 49 50(performance) 51 52 * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath. 53 54 * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized 55 to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index. 56 57(usability, bells and whistles) 58 59 * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what 60 is added to the index. 61 62 * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input. 63 64 * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope 65 to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is 66 already known to be untestable. 67 68 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion 69 70 * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the 71 same context hunk marker "git diff" uses. 72 73 * https transport can optionally be told that the used client 74 certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the 75 password only once. 76 77 * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware. 78 79 * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines 80 when able. 81 82 * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known 83 refs/* prefix. 84 85 * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before 86 using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching 87 and pushing can be different. 88 89 * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might 90 have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). 91 92 * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration 93 variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from"). 94 95 * "git show-branch" can color its output. 96 97 * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference 98 option to use local clone with references. 99 100 * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked 101 out submodules by rebasing the local changes. 102 103 * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names. 104 105(developers) 106 107 * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. 108 109 * Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported. 110 111Fixes since v1.6.3 112------------------ 113 114All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this 115release, unless otherwise noted. 116 117Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to 118v1.6.3.X series. 119 120 * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from 121 the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed 122 directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked 123 to backport this fix. 124 125 * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers 126 that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location 127 as an absolute path when autodetected. 128 129 * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its 130 section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost 131 that variable definition. 132 133 * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true 134 parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit. 135 After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting 136 the repository. 137 138 * "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion. 139 140--- 141exec >/var/tmp/1 142echo O=$(git describe master) 143O=v1.6.4-rc2-31-g2ceb639 144git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint