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