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Update draft release notes for 1.6.0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 17 years ago
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@ -7,20 +7,16 @@ User visible changes @@ -7,20 +7,16 @@ User visible changes
[[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.
With the 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 need to be accessible for technical
reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.

Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.
@ -31,6 +27,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 @@ -31,6 +27,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.6

(subsystems)

* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.

(portability)

* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
@ -47,7 +46,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 @@ -47,7 +46,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.6

* Updated howto/update-hook-example

(performance, robustness etc.)
* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.

* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.

(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)

* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".

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

@ -67,6 +72,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 @@ -67,6 +72,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.6
objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
that does not order data writes properly).

* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
"git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.

(usability, bells and whistles)

* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
@ -100,6 +108,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted. @@ -100,6 +108,6 @@ this release, unless otherwise noted.

---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.5.6.1-77-gf9a08f6
O=v1.5.6.1-104-ga08b868
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint

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