You can not select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
182 lines
6.6 KiB
182 lines
6.6 KiB
GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes |
|
======================== |
|
|
|
With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is |
|
currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose |
|
what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration |
|
variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. |
|
|
|
To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a |
|
push running this release will issue a big warning when the |
|
configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: |
|
|
|
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare |
|
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 |
|
|
|
for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the |
|
transition plan. |
|
|
|
For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch |
|
$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current |
|
branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what |
|
should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable |
|
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. |
|
|
|
When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always |
|
pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new |
|
configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow |
|
changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, |
|
a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without |
|
arguments is attempted. |
|
|
|
|
|
Updates since v1.6.2 |
|
-------------------- |
|
|
|
(subsystems) |
|
|
|
* various git-svn updates. |
|
|
|
* git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a |
|
fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff. |
|
|
|
* gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows |
|
support. |
|
|
|
(performance) |
|
|
|
* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been |
|
optimized out. |
|
|
|
(usability, bells and whistles) |
|
|
|
* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off. |
|
|
|
* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local |
|
repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for |
|
testing. |
|
|
|
* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or |
|
pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL. |
|
|
|
* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can |
|
be handled appropriately in Windows console. |
|
|
|
* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be |
|
spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring |
|
is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. |
|
|
|
* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit". |
|
|
|
* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph |
|
in colors. |
|
|
|
* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks |
|
with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to |
|
tell git not to apply it. |
|
|
|
* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in |
|
1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few |
|
commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname". |
|
|
|
* git-archive learned --output=<file> option. |
|
|
|
* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly |
|
speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one. |
|
Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from |
|
the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads |
|
attributes from the work tree). |
|
|
|
* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness |
|
is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. |
|
|
|
* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame. |
|
|
|
* "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in |
|
interest of each tracked remote repository. |
|
|
|
* "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the |
|
"upstream" branch for them. |
|
|
|
* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file |
|
directly. |
|
|
|
* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout. |
|
|
|
* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily |
|
maintained by David Aguilar. |
|
|
|
* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token. |
|
|
|
* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, |
|
format.attach. |
|
|
|
* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads. |
|
|
|
* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration |
|
variable. |
|
|
|
* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra |
|
header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing |
|
--add-header=<header> option of the command. |
|
|
|
* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when |
|
told to send patches as attachments. |
|
|
|
* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color. |
|
|
|
* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily |
|
disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. |
|
|
|
* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a |
|
descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase |
|
option. |
|
|
|
* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option. |
|
|
|
* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved. |
|
|
|
* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and |
|
then prunes stale tracking branches. |
|
|
|
* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before |
|
sending the messages out. |
|
|
|
(developers) |
|
|
|
* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. |
|
|
|
* Test scripts can be run with installed git. |
|
|
|
* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with |
|
coverage tracking enabled. |
|
|
|
* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now |
|
requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug. |
|
This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems |
|
with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more |
|
knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the |
|
docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details. |
|
|
|
* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a |
|
working perl has been improved. |
|
|
|
|
|
Fixes since v1.6.2 |
|
------------------ |
|
|
|
All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this |
|
release, unless otherwise noted. |
|
|
|
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to |
|
v1.6.2.X series. |
|
|
|
* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B |
|
and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry |
|
picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee). |
|
|
|
* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute |
|
file that is being checked out. |
|
|
|
* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears |
|
in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
|
|
|