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GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes
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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
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 v1.6.4
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(subsystems)
* various updates to git-svn and gitweb.
(portability)
* more improvements on mingw port.
(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.
* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
been removed.
(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.
* 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" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences.
* "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 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 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" 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 init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
* "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server.
* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
give the reference name in full.
* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
* "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
"foreach" subcommand.
* various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option.
* "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work
tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
the index.
* "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and
"git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes.
(developers)
* With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
Fixes since v1.6.4
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# All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
# release, unless otherwise noted.
# Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
# v1.6.4.X series.
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint