There are a few fixes on 'maint', in addition to futureproofing of "git
shell" so that eventually we can update the ssh clients to ask for server
side programs using "git upload-pack" syntax without a dash between "git"
and the subcommand name.
Many of the medimu size items for 1.6.0 have been merged to 'master'. The
port to MinGW series will also be merged shortly.
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GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes (draft)
================================
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
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.
By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
introduced in v1.5.2.
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
*.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.
* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
(documentation)
* Updated howto/update-hook-example
* 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.
* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
objects are available.
* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
repositories with insanely large number of refs.
* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
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-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
much better than before.
* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
* 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
pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
(internal)
Fixes since v1.5.6
------------------
All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
* diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
* "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
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* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since v1.5.6.1.
Avery Pennarun (1):
git-svn: avoid filling up the disk with temp files.
Björn Steinbrink (1):
git cat-file: Fix memory leak in batch mode
Eric Wong (1):
git-svn: don't sanitize remote names in config
Jeff King (1):
doc/rev-parse: clarify reflog vs --until for specifying revisions
Jochen Voss (1):
avoid off-by-one error in run_upload_archive
Joey Hess (1):
fix git config example syntax
Junio C Hamano (5):
diff --check: do not discard error status upon seeing a good line
git-shell: accept "git foo" form
GIT 1.5.4.6
GIT 1.5.5.5
Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2
Thomas Rast (1):
Fix 'git show' on signed tag of signed tag of commit
* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement
in addition to the above.
Alex Riesen (1):
Fix use of "perl -i" on Windows
Brian Gernhardt (2):
Fix t4017-diff-retval for white-space from wc
Add test results directory to t/.gitignore
Christian Couder (1):
help: check early if we have a command, if not try a documentation topic
Dmitry Potapov (2):
update-hook-example: optionally allow non-fast-forward
shrink git-shell by avoiding redundant dependencies
Don Zickus (1):
git-apply: handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
better
Jeff King (3):
improve for-each-ref test script
fetch: report local storage errors in status table
fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to update
Jing Xue (1):
Add 'git-p4.allowSubmit' to git-p4
Johan Herland (4):
Incorporate fetched packs in future object traversal
Move pack_refs() and friends into libgit
Prepare testsuite for a "git clone" that packs refs
Teach "git clone" to pack refs
Johannes Schindelin (4):
clone: respect url.insteadOf setting in global configs
commit-tree: lift completely arbitrary limit of 16 parents
Allow git-apply to recount the lines in a hunk (AKA recountdiff)
clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig
Jonathan Nieder (7):
Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pages
whitespace fix in Documentation/git-repack.txt
Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"
git-daemon(1): don't assume git-daemon is in /usr/bin
Documentation: prepare to be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Documentation formatting and cleanup
Junio C Hamano (15):
git-shell: accept "git foo" form
Prepare execv_git_cmd() for removal of builtins from the filesystem
Keep some git-* programs in $(bindir)
Allow "git-reset path" when unambiguous
Start draft release notes for 1.6.0
diff --check: explain why we do not care whether old side is binary
check_and_emit_line(): rename and refactor
checkdiff: pass diff_options to the callback
Teach "diff --check" about new blank lines at end
diff --check: detect leftover conflict markers
Update sample pre-commit hook to use "diff --check"
Document the double-dash "rev -- path" disambiguator
t9700: skip when Test::More is not available
Update draft release notes for 1.6.0
Update draft release notes for 1.6.0
Kevin Ballard (1):
git-send-email: Accept fifos as well as files
Lea Wiemann (5):
t/test-lib.sh: add test_external and test_external_without_stderr
Git.pm: add test suite
gitweb: standarize HTTP status codes
test-lib.sh: show git init output when in verbose mode
GIT-VERSION-GEN: do not fail if a 'HEAD' file exists in the working copy
Linus Torvalds (4):
Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
Miklos Vajna (1):
A simple script to parse the results from the testcases
Nanako Shiraishi (1):
gitcli: Document meaning of --cached and --index
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
Move all dashed-form commands to libexecdir
Nicolas Pitre (2):
repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option now defaults to "true"
pack.indexversion config option now defaults to 2
Olivier Marin (2):
Documentation: remove {show,whatchanged}.difftree config options
show_stats(): fix stats width calculation
Patrick Higgins (1):
Remove the use of '--' in merge program invocation
Stephan Beyer (2):
api-builtin.txt: update and fix typo
t3404: stricter tests for git-rebase--interactive
Sverre Rabbelier (2):
Modify test-lib.sh to output stats to t/test-results/*
Hook up the result aggregation in the test makefile.
Ted Percival (1):
Don't use dash commands (git-foo) in tutorial-2
Thomas Rast (2):
git-send-email: add support for TLS via Net::SMTP::SSL
git-send-email: prevent undefined variable warnings if no encryption is
set
jrnieder@xxxxxxxxxxxx (1):
Documentation: don't assume git-sh-setup and git-parse-remote are in PATH
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