From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.rc1 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:57:12 -0700 Message-ID: <7vmy75bg2f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel-3=40m.gmane.org-S1756812AbZGPA5W@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 16 02:57:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRFIL-0004Zo-O8 for glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:57:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756812AbZGPA5W (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:57:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756672AbZGPA5V (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:57:21 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:62674 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756646AbZGPA5U (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:57:20 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7FE4F17; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:57:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AB62E4F16; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:57:13 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9C93A1A2-71A3-11DE-813F-F699A5B33865-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A release candidate GIT 1.6.4.rc1 is available at the usual places for testing: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.4.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.4.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.4.rc1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: testing/git-*-1.6.4.rc1-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM) GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes (draft) ================================ 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. When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without arguments is attempted. Side note: we might want to tone this down, as it does not seem likely for us to change the default behaviour when this option is not set. 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. (portability) * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is understood more widely. (performance) (usability, bells and whistles) * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what is added to the index. * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines when able. * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known refs/* prefix. * "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..from"). * "git show-branch" can color its output. * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference option to use local clone with references. (developers) * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. 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. * 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.