GIT 1.6.5-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 13, 2009 at 01:50 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt
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@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.4
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* more improvements on mingw port.
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+ * mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS
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+ environment variable when the user does not have one.
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(performance)
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* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
@@ -48,11 +51,28 @@ Updates since v1.6.4
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* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
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been removed.
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+ * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged
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+ in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing
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+ commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now
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+ implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we
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+ used to.
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+ * "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to
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+ newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files,
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+ but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the
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+ cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid
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+ this issue.
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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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+ * A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated
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+ people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow
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+ users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages
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+ can be silenced now.
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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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reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
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blobs.
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+ * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area.
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* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
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extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
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@@ -91,8 +113,16 @@ Updates since v1.6.4
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* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
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give the reference name in full.
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+ * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected
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+ that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local
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+ uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it
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+ clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm.
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* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
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+ * "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL
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+ that is derived from the URL used for fetching.
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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 $another_branch".
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@@ -126,5 +156,6 @@ Fixes since v1.6.4
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c
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+O=v1.6.5-rc0-49-g5f2b1e6
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint