Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.0-rc2-35-g04c6e
diff --git a/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index 8afb5b2..e3c0c1d 100644 --- a/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ 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 @@ -56,11 +66,7 @@ gangs. * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with - *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by - relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on - some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running - "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples - as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix. + *.sample. * perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows; some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
