Git v1.6.6 Release Notes ======================== In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and checks packfiles, and because of this it will take much longer to complete than before. If you prefer a quicker check only on loose objects (the old default), you can say "git fsck --no-full". This has been supported by 1.5.4 and newer versions of git, so it is safe to write it in your script even if you use slightly older git on some of your machines. In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.6, "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default. You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the transition plan. Updates since v1.6.5 -------------------- (subsystems) * various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states, etc. (portability) (performance) (usability, bells and whistles) * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects global option given to the "git" program. * "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit. * "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch. * "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option. * "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs instead of differences between the commit object names. * "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full". * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of compressed tarballs. * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2. * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well. * "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned: . to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier. . to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier. * "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail if the merge does not result in a fast-forward. * "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge. * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the contents. * "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets. * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the author. (developers) Fixes since v1.6.5 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. --- exec >/var/tmp/1 echo O=$(git describe master) O=v1.6.5.3-152-g122d0f6 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint