Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt

GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
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User visible changes
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[[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing
but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]]

With default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now installed
outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and some server
side programs that needs to be accessible when connecting over ssh.

When talking to remote repository over ssh, necessary server side programs
are now invoked with "git $program" notation, not with "git-$program"
notation.  This should work with both servers running older git where you
had all of these programs installed on $PATH, or newer git where you have
only "git" on $PATH.  However, if the remote side is running a custom
software that restricts programs you can run over ssh, it might cause
problems.  Use --upload-pack="git-upload-pack" (when using ls-remote,
fetch and pull on the client side), --receive-pack="git-receive-pack"
(when using push on the client side), or --exec="git-upload-archive" (when
using git-archive) as appropriate when talking to such a remote.

Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.


Updates since v1.5.6
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(subsystems)

(portability)

* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
  *.sample.  We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
  relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
  some filesystems this approach does not work.  Instead of running
  "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
  as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.

* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
  some tests are rewritten to cope with this.

(documentation)

* Updated howto/update-hook-example

(performance, robustness etc.)

* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.

* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.

* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
  when the same object is available in a loose form,  We now try harder to
  fall back to these redundant objects when able.  In particular, "git
  repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
  objects are available.

* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
  if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning).  This will help
  repositories with insanely large number of refs.

* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
  objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
  that does not order data writes properly).

(usability, bells and whistles)

* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
  export-ignore attributes.

* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
  interface with fast-import incrementally.

* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.

* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
  untracked files with --untracked-files=no.

* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
  than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.

(internal)


Fixes since v1.5.6
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All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.

 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
   boundary (needs backmerge to maint).

 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
   like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).

---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.5.6.1-77-gf9a08f6
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint