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GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.6.0
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When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we
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used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces
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output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the
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pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the
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processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now
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on.
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(subsystems)
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* gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn
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can run gitk from its blame view.
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(portability)
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* ...
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(documentation)
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* ...
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(performance)
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* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
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optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing.
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* Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers)
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can be run in parallel.
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* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of
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refs has been optimized.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses
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you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set
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to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
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guess.
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* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
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merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
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* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now
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DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you
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said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack".
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* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution.
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* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing
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commits.
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* "git count-objects" reports the on-disk footprint for packfiles and
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their corresponding idx files.
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* "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option.
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* "git diff" learned to mimick --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a
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configuration option.
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* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and
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HTML contents.
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* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are
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being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration.
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* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
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unambiguously abbreviated refname.
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* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before
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using "man" program.
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* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL.
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* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while
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completing a thin pack.
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* "git log --check" and "git log --exit-code" passes their underlying diff
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status with their exit status code.
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* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history;
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"gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history.
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* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts
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names of tags that point at the commit.
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* "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are
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noticed as user errors.
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* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
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command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
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* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire
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refs/heads/branch".
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* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
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out submodules.
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* "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL
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recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file.
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(internal)
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* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that
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correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents
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stored in a temporary file.
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Fixes since v1.6.0
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------------------
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All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this
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release, unless otherwise noted.
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* "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S
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is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in
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it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F
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is a path in it).
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* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them,
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but we droppped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
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been resurrected.
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* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
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* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
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telling saying these two options are incompatible.
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* "git log --author/--committer" match used to potentially match the
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timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
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not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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