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authorNicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>2010-09-06 20:29:57 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-09-06 17:41:18 -0700
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Documentation: move RelNotes into a directory of their own
There are 108 of them already. That's a bit more than one third of all the files in the Documentation directory already, and still growing. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes
-========================
-
-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.
-
-
-Updates since v1.6.2
---------------------
-
-(subsystems)
-
-* various git-svn updates.
-
-* git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a
- fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff.
-
-* gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows
- support.
-
-(performance)
-
-* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
- optimized out.
-
-(usability, bells and whistles)
-
-* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off.
-
-* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
- repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
- testing.
-
-* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
- pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
-
-* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
- be handled appropriately in Windows console.
-
-* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
- spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
- is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
-
-* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
-
-* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph
- in colors.
-
-* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
- with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
- tell git not to apply it.
-
-* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in
- 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
- commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
-
-* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
-
-* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly
- speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one.
- Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from
- the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads
- attributes from the work tree).
-
-* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
- is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
-
-* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame.
-
-* "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
- interest of each tracked remote repository.
-
-* "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the
- "upstream" branch for them.
-
-* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
- directly.
-
-* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
-
-* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily
- maintained by David Aguilar.
-
-* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token.
-
-* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
- format.attach.
-
-* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
-
-* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration
- variable.
-
-* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
- header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing
- --add-header=<header> option of the command.
-
-* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when
- told to send patches as attachments.
-
-* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
-
-* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
- disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
-
-* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a
- descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase
- option.
-
-* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option.
-
-* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
-
-* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and
- then prunes stale tracking branches.
-
-* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
- sending the messages out.
-
-(developers)
-
-* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
-
-* Test scripts can be run with installed git.
-
-* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
- coverage tracking enabled.
-
-* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now
- requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug.
- This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems
- with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more
- knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
- docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
-
-* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a
- working perl has been improved.
-
-
-Fixes since v1.6.2
-------------------
-
-All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this
-release, unless otherwise noted.
-
-Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
-v1.6.2.X series.
-
-* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B
- and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry
- picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee).
-
-* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
- file that is being checked out.
-
-* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
- in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).