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GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
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User visible changes
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With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
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installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
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some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
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reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
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line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
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1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding
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output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this
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release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
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scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
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"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
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Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
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main git.git codebase.
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By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
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encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
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allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
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introduced in v1.5.2.
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Updates since v1.5.6
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(subsystems)
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* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
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which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
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(portability)
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* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
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*.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
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relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
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some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
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"chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
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as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
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* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
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some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
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(documentation)
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* Updated howto/update-hook-example
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* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial.
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* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
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(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
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* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
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* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
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* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files.
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* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even
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when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to
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fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git
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repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
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objects are available.
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* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
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if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
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repositories with insanely large number of refs.
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* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose
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objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems
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that does not order data writes properly).
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* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents.
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"git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
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much better than before.
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* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
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patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
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* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
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export-ignore attributes.
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* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
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configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
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* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
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* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
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it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
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branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
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pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
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of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
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* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
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interface with fast-import incrementally.
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* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
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* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
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* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
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untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
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* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
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than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
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(internal)
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Fixes since v1.5.6
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All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
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this release, unless otherwise noted.
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* diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
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boundary (needs backmerge to maint).
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* "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
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like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).
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---
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2
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echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
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