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authorNicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>2010-09-06 20:29:57 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-09-06 17:41:18 -0700
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Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their own
There are 108 of them already. That's a bit more than one third of all the files in the Documentation directory already, and still growing. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes
-========================
-
-With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
-currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose
-what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
-variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.
-
-To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
-push running this release will issue a big warning when the
-configuration variable is missing. Please refer to:
-
- http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
-
-for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
-transition plan.
-
-For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
-$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
-branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
-should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
-receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
-
-
-Updates since v1.6.3
---------------------
-
-(subsystems)
-
- * gitweb Perl style clean-up.
-
- * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
- names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
- 'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting
- of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc.
-
-(portability)
-
- * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
- understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
- encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead
- of "ISO-8859-1").
-
- * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
- SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.
-
- * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.
-
-(performance)
-
- * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.
-
- * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
- to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.
-
-(usability, bells and whistles)
-
- * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
- is added to the index.
-
- * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.
-
- * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
- to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
- already known to be untestable.
-
- * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion
-
- * "git fast-export" learned to handle history simplification more
- gracefully.
-
- * "git fast-export" learned an option --tag-of-filtered-object to handle
- dangling tags resulting from history simplification more usefully.
-
- * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
- same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.
-
- * https transport can optionally be told that the used client
- certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
- password only once.
-
- * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.
-
- * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines
- when able.
-
- * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
- refs/* prefix.
-
- * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
- using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching
- and pushing can be different.
-
- * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
- have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
-
- * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
- variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
-
- * "git show-branch" can color its output.
-
- * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
- option to use local clone with references.
-
- * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
- out submodules by rebasing the local changes.
-
- * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.
-
-(developers)
-
- * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
-
- * Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported.
-
-Fixes since v1.6.3
-------------------
-
-All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this
-release, unless otherwise noted.
-
-Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
-v1.6.3.X series.
-
- * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
- the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
- directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
- to backport this fix.
-
- * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
- that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
- as an absolute path when autodetected.
-
- * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its
- section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost
- that variable definition.
-
- * "git rebase -p --onto" used to always leave side branches of a merge
- intact, even when both branches are subject to rewriting.
-
- * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true
- parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit.
- After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting
- the repository.
-
- * "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion.