Git 1.6.6-rc4

Hopefully the last rc before the final one.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2009-12-20 12:15:02 -08:00
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@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ These changes were discussed long time ago and existing behaviours have
been identified as more problematic to the userbase than keeping them for
the sake of backward compatibility.
When necessary, transition strategy for existing users has been designed
When necessary, a transition strategy for existing users has been designed
not to force them running around setting configuration variables and
updating their scripts in order to either keep the traditional behaviour
or adjust to the new behaviour on the day their sysadmin decides to install
or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install
the new version of git. When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in
1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition
guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated
@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ their sysadmins updated their git installation. We are trying to avoid
repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release.
For changes decided to be in 1.7.0, commands that will be affected
have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination. If
you have been using recent versions of git, you would have seen
warnings issued when you exercised features whose behaviour will
change, with a clear instruction on how to keep the existing behaviour
if you want to. You hopefully are already well prepared.
have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination, and
they continue to be in this release. If you have been using recent
versions of git, you would have seen warnings issued when you used
features whose behaviour will change, with a clear instruction on how
to keep the existing behaviour if you want to. You hopefully are
already well prepared.
Of course, we have also been giving "this and that will change in
1.7.0; prepare yourselves" warnings in the release notes and

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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
DEF_VER=v1.6.6-rc3.GIT
DEF_VER=v1.6.6-rc4.GIT
LF='
'