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GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes
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GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes
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-In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git push"
-into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by default.
+In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "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
You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving
(subsystems)
(subsystems)
- * various updates to git-svn and gitweb.
+ * various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb.
(portability)
* more improvements on mingw port.
(portability)
* more improvements on mingw port.
+ * mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS
+ environment variable when the user does not have one.
+
+ * initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC.
+
(performance)
* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
(performance)
* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
- Mozzilla.
+ Mozilla.
+
+ * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
+ been removed.
+
+ * "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e.
+ referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags
+ hierarchy) anymore.
+
+ * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged
+ in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing
+ commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now
+ implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we
+ used to.
+
+ * "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to
+ newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files,
+ but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the
+ cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid
+ this issue.
(usability, bells and whistles)
(usability, bells and whistles)
+ * Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday,
+ master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly.
+
+ * A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated
+ people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow
+ users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages
+ can be silenced now.
+
* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
transferred across repositories.
* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
transferred across repositories.
* "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly.
* "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly.
+ * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
+ of an incoming e-mail.
+
+ * "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to
+ use with an explicit "--format=zip".option.
+
+ * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
+ choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".
+
+ * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
+ different from the remote's default branch.
+
+ * "git clone" learned --recursive option.
+
+ * "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to
+ copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving
+ them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed.
+
* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
- * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access.
+ * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a
+ separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even
+ when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file.
* "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when
reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
blobs.
* "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when
reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
blobs.
+ * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area.
+
* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
give the reference name in full.
* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
give the reference name in full.
+ * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected
+ that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local
+ uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it
+ clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm.
+
* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
+ * "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL
+ that is derived from the URL used for fetching.
+
* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
- * "git status" gives more descriptive output for unmerged paths.
-
* "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
"foreach" subcommand.
* "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
"foreach" subcommand.
tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
the index.
tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
the index.
+ * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and
+ "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes.
+
(developers)
* With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
(developers)
* With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
+ * With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can
+ build for one location, and install into another location to tar it
+ up.
Fixes since v1.6.4
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Fixes since v1.6.4
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-# All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
-# release, unless otherwise noted.
-
-# Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
-# v1.6.4.X series.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.4.1-266-g235db15
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint
+All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
+release, unless otherwise noted.