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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
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push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by
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default.
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You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
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configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving
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repository.
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Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote
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repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by
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its HEAD, will be refused by default.
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You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
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configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving
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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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Updates since v1.6.4
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--------------------
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(subsystems)
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* various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb.
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(portability)
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* more improvements on mingw port.
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* mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS
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environment variable when the user does not have one.
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* initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC.
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(performance)
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* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
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block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
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outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
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Mozilla.
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* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
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been removed.
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* "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e.
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referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags
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hierarchy) anymore.
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* The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged
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in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing
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commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now
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implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we
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used to.
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* "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to
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newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files,
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but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the
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cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid
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this issue.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday,
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master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly.
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* A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated
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people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow
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users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages
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can be silenced now.
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* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
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of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
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transferred across repositories.
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* "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences.
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* "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly.
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* "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
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of an incoming e-mail.
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* "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to
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use with an explicit "--format=zip".option.
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* "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
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choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".
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* "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
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different from the remote's default branch.
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* "git clone" learned --recursive option.
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* "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to
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copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving
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them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed.
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* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
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happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
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* "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a
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separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge.
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* "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even
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when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file.
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* "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when
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reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
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blobs.
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* "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area.
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* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
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extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
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* "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server.
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* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
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give the reference name in full.
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* "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected
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that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local
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uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it
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clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm.
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* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
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* "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL
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that is derived from the URL used for fetching.
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* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
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paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
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* "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
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"foreach" subcommand.
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* various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option.
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* "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work
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tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
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the index.
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* "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and
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"git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes.
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(developers)
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* With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
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source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
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* With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can
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build for one location, and install into another location to tar it
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up.
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Fixes since v1.6.4
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------------------
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All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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