GIT 1.6.5-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes
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-In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git push"
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-into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by default.
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+In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git
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+push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by
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+default.
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You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
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configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving
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outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
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Mozzilla.
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+ * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
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+ been removed.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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+ * Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday,
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+ master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly.
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* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
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of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
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transferred across repositories.
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* "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly.
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+ * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
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+ of an incoming e-mail.
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+ * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
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+ choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".
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+ * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
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+ different from the remote's default branch.
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* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
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happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
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- * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access.
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+ * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a
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+ separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge.
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+ * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even
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+ when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file.
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* "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when
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reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
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* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
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paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
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- * "git status" gives more descriptive output for unmerged paths.
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* "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
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"foreach" subcommand.
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tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
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the index.
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+ * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and
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+ "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes.
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* With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.6.4.1-266-g235db15
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+O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint