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- GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes
- ========================
-
- With the next major release, "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.
-
- 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.
-
- For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
- $killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
- branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
- should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
- receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
-
- When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
- pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
- configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
- changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
- a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
- arguments is attempted.
-
-
- Updates since v1.6.2
- --------------------
-
- (subsystems)
-
- * various git-svn updates.
-
- * git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a
- fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff.
-
- * gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows
- support.
-
- (performance)
-
- * many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
- optimized out.
-
- (usability, bells and whistles)
-
- * Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off.
-
- * rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
- repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
- testing.
-
- * http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
- pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
-
- * (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
- be handled appropriately in Windows console.
-
- * "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
- spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
- is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
-
- * "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
-
- * "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph
- in colors.
-
- * If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
- with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
- tell git not to apply it.
-
- * @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in
- 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
- commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
-
- * git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
-
- * git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly
- speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one.
- Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from
- the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads
- attributes from the work tree).
-
- * git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
- is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
-
- * You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame.
-
- * "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
- interest of each tracked remote repository.
-
- * "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the
- "upstream" branch for them.
-
- * git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
- directly.
-
- * git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
-
- * git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily
- maintained by David Aguilar.
-
- * git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token.
-
- * git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
- format.attach.
-
- * git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
-
- * git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration
- variable.
-
- * git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
- header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing
- --add-header=<header> option of the command.
-
- * git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when
- told to send patches as attachments.
-
- * git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
-
- * git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
- disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
-
- * git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a
- descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase
- option.
-
- * git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option.
-
- * Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
-
- * "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and
- then prunes stale tracking branches.
-
- * git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
- sending the messages out.
-
- (developers)
-
- * Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
-
- * Test scripts can be run with installed git.
-
- * Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
- coverage tracking enabled.
-
- * Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now
- requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug.
- This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems
- with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more
- knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
- docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
-
- * Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a
- working perl has been improved.
-
-
- Fixes since v1.6.2
- ------------------
-
- All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this
- release, unless otherwise noted.
-
- Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
- v1.6.2.X series.
-
- * "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B
- and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry
- picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee).
-
- * The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
- file that is being checked out.
-
- * git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
- in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
-