As many folks have lamented, the current git-1.5.5.6 in EL-5 is quite a bit stale. Updating it has been discussed on several occassions, but was held up until recently due to compatibility issues with the emacs-git package. With great thanks to Kevin Fenzi for dusting off an old emacs habit, that is now resolved and git-1.7.4.1 is heading to epel-testing. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/git-1.7.4.1-1.el5 The update should be a welcome enhancement and not cause current users any trouble. Please test and provide feedback via the URL above. Since 1.5.5.6 there have been a huge amount of bug fixes and improvements in all areas of git. Of particular interest are the release notes from 1.6.0 and 1.7.0: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/1.7.0.txt Links to release notes for each version of git can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git.html In git-1.6.0, most git-* commands were moved out of the standard path. Use of "git $command" is preferred. It is a very good idea to migrate scripts to use the dashless form. However, to retain compatibility the EL-5 packages keep the git-* commands in /usr/bin. Other noteworthy changes since 1.5.5.6: * "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed at by HEAD in a repository that is not bare) is refused by default. Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default. Setting the configuration variables receive.denyCurrentBranch and receive.denyDeleteCurrent to 'ignore' in the receiving repository can be used to override these safety features. * "git send-email" does not make deep threads by default when sending a patch series with more than two messages. All messages will be sent as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter. It has been possible already to configure send-email to send "shallow thread" by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false. The only thing this release does is to change the default when you haven't configured that variable. * "git status" will not be "git commit --dry-run". This change does not affect you if you run the command without pathspec. Nobody sane found the current behaviour of "git status Makefile" useful nor meaningful, and it confused users. "git commit --dry-run" has been provided as a way to get the current behaviour of this command since 1.6.5. For folks using git over HTTP, git now supports a 'smart' HTTP protocol which is much more efficient than the older ('dumb') HTTP protocol. Refer to the git http-backend documentation for more details: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html Thanks to all the folks who have helped test the updated git packages on EL-5 and reported issues. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. -- Jerome K. Jerome
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