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GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes
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With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
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currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose
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what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
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variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.
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To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
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push running this release will issue a big warning when the
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configuration variable is missing. Please refer to:
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http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
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for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
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transition plan.
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For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
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$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
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branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
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should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
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receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
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Updates since v1.6.3
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--------------------
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(subsystems)
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* gitweb Perl style clean-up.
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* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
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names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
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'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting
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of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc.
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(portability)
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* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
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understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
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encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead
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of "ISO-8859-1").
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* Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
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SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.
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* Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.
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(performance)
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* Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.
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* git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
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to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
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is added to the index.
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* "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.
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* "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
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to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
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already known to be untestable.
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* "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion
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* "git fast-export" learned to handle history simplification more
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gracefully.
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* "git fast-export" learned an option --tag-of-filtered-object to handle
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dangling tags resulting from history simplification more usefully.
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* "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
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same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.
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* https transport can optionally be told that the used client
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certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
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password only once.
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* "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.
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* "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines
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when able.
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* "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
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refs/* prefix.
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* "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
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using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching
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and pushing can be different.
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* "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
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have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
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* "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
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variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
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* "git show-branch" can color its output.
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* "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
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option to use local clone with references.
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* "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
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out submodules by rebasing the local changes.
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* "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.
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(developers)
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* A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
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* Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported.
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Fixes since v1.6.3
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------------------
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All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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v1.6.3.X series.
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* "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
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the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
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directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
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to backport this fix.
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* The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
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that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
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as an absolute path when autodetected.
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* Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its
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section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost
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that variable definition.
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* "git rebase -p --onto" used to always leave side branches of a merge
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intact, even when both branches are subject to rewriting.
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* "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true
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parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit.
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After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting
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the repository.
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* "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion.
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