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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index 7da62d08d6..de7ef166b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ User visible changes -------------------- With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now -installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and +installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" 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 @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ 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. +An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly unpopular +and has been reverted. + Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the main git.git codebase. @@ -25,6 +28,16 @@ introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively. +We used to prevent sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ from +triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as +unexecutable, but on some filesystems, this approach does not work. +They are now shipped with ".sample" suffix. If you want to activate +any of these samples as-is, rename them to drop the ".sample" suffix, +instead of running "chmod +x" on them. For example, you can rename +hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update to enable the sample +hook that runs update-server-info, in order to make repositories +friendly to dumb protocols (i.e. HTTP). + GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and @@ -53,11 +66,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 gangs. * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with - *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by - relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on - some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running - "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples - as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix. + *.sample. * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows; some tests are rewritten to cope with this. @@ -139,6 +148,10 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating zip archive. +* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their + parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands. + IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported. + * With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind. @@ -158,10 +171,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. +* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository. + * git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c". * git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers. +* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in + BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to + chapter and part boundary in TeX documents. + * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest @@ -173,14 +192,22 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks. +* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep + history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes + away now. + * git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is rewound. * "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable. +* git-rev-parse learned $commit^! and $commit^@ notations used in "log" + family. These notations are available in gitk as well, because the gitk + command internally uses rev-parse to interpret its arguments. + * git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it - encountered during the traversal, instead of shoing parent commits. + encountered during the traversal, instead of showing parent commits. * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. @@ -196,6 +223,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind. +* "git-svn dcommit" is now aware of auto-props setting the subversion user + has. + * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking untracked files with --untracked-files=no. @@ -215,8 +245,14 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.6.4-432-g6796399 -echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint + * git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to + 'maint'; + + * git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged + and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index + after moving such a path. + + * "git-rebase -i -p" rewrote the parents to wrong ones when amending + (either edit or squash) was involved, and did not work correctly + when fast forwarding. + |