From 761e742d69296393804e9a942263e86ece369257 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:29:57 -0400 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt | 258 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 258 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..de7ef166b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,258 @@ +GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes +======================== + +User visible changes +-------------------- + +With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now +installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" 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. + +An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly unpopular +and has been reverted. + +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 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories +backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset +to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively. + +We used to prevent sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ from +triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as +unexecutable, but on some filesystems, this approach does not work. +They are now shipped with ".sample" suffix. If you want to activate +any of these samples as-is, rename them to drop the ".sample" suffix, +instead of running "chmod +x" on them. For example, you can rename +hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update to enable the sample +hook that runs update-server-info, in order to make repositories +friendly to dumb protocols (i.e. HTTP). + +GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but +actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". +GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and +not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed. + +The ".dotest" temporary area "git am" and "git rebase" use is now moved +inside the $GIT_DIR, to avoid mistakes of adding it to the project by +accident. + +An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed. + + +Updates since v1.5.6 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on + which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. + +* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line. + +(portability) + +* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and + gangs. + +* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with + *.sample. + +* 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 and made typography + more consistent. + +* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. + +(performance, robustness, sanity etc.) + +* index-pack used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain. + This has been optimized. + +* 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. + +* Performance of "git-blame -C -C" operation is vastly improved. + +* 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) + +* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help". + +* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop + the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful + when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree, + as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places. + +* By default, stash entries never expire. Set reflogexpire in [gc + "refs/stash"] to a reasonable value to get traditional auto-expiration + behaviour back + +* Longstanding latency issue with bash completion script has been + addressed. This will need to be backmerged to 'maint' later. + +* pager. configuration variable can be used to enable/disable the + default paging behaviour per command. + +* "git-add -i" has a new action 'e/dit' to allow you edit the patch hunk + manually. + +* git-am records the original tip of the branch in ORIG_HEAD before it + starts applying patches. + +* 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-apply can be told to apply a patch to a path deeper than what the + patch records with --directory option. + +* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using + export-ignore attributes. + +* git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating + zip archive. + +* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their + parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands. + IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported. + +* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics + similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch + is ahead/behind. + +* git-branch's --contains option used to always require a commit parameter + to limit the branches with; it now defaults to list branches that + contains HEAD if this parameter is omitted. + +* git-branch's --merged and --no-merged option used to always limit the + branches relative to the HEAD, but they can now take an optional commit + argument that is used in place of HEAD. + +* git-bundle can read the revision arguments from the standard input. + +* git-cherry-pick can replay a root commit now. + +* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by + configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. + +* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository. + +* git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c". + +* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers. + +* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in + BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to + chapter and part boundary in TeX documents. + +* 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. + +* fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks. + +* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep + history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes + away now. + +* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is + rewound. + +* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution + with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable. + +* git-rev-parse learned $commit^! and $commit^@ notations used in "log" + family. These notations are available in gitk as well, because the gitk + command internally uses rev-parse to interpret its arguments. + +* git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it + encountered during the traversal, instead of showing parent commits. + +* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. + +* git-shortlog honors custom output format specified with "--pretty=format:". + +* "git-stash save" learned --keep-index option. This lets you stash away the + local changes and bring the changes staged in the index to your working + tree for examination and testing. + +* git-stash also learned branch subcommand to create a new branch out of + stashed changes. + +* git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way + git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind. + +* "git-svn dcommit" is now aware of auto-props setting the subversion user + has. + +* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking + untracked files with --untracked-files=no. + +* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. + +* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather + than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. + +(internal) + +* git-merge has been reimplemented in C. + + +Fixes since v1.5.6 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in +this release, unless otherwise noted. + + * git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to + 'maint'; + + * git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged + and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index + after moving such a path. + + * "git-rebase -i -p" rewrote the parents to wrong ones when amending + (either edit or squash) was involved, and did not work correctly + when fast forwarding. + -- cgit v1.2.3