RelNotes-1.6.0.txt

GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes
========================

User visible changes
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[[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing
but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]]

With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" 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.

Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.


Updates since v1.5.6
--------------------

(subsystems)

* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
 which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.

(portability)

* 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.

* 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.

* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.

(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)

* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".

* 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.

* 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)

* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
 export-ignore attributes.

* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
 interface with fast-import incrementally.

* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.

* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
 untracked files with --untracked-files=no.

* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
 than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.

(internal)


Fixes since v1.5.6
------------------

All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.

 * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
 boundary (needs backmerge to maint).

 * "git-clone <src> <dst>" did not create leading directories for <dst>
 like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint).

---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.5.6.1-104-ga08b868
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint