This is primarily to push out many documentation fixes accumulated since
the 1.7.3.1 release.
Changes 1.7.3.1:
* "git stash show stash@{$n}" was accidentally broken in 1.7.3 ("git
stash show" without any argument still worked, though).
* "git stash branch $branch stash@{$n}" was accidentally broken in
1.7.3 and started dropping the named stash even when branch creation
failed.
Changes 1.7.3:
* git-gui, now at version 0.13.0, got various updates and a new
maintainer, Pat Thoyts.
* Gitweb allows its configuration to change per each request; it used to
read the configuration once upon startup.
* When git finds a corrupt object, it now reports the file that contains
it.
* "git checkout -B <it>" is a shorter way to say "git branch -f <it>"
followed by "git checkout <it>".
* When "git checkout" or "git merge" refuse to proceed in order to
protect local modification to your working tree, they used to stop
after showing just one path that might be lost. They now show all,
in a format that is easier to read.
* "git clean" learned "-e" ("--exclude") option.
* Hunk headers produced for C# files by "git diff" and friends show more
relevant context than before.
* diff.ignoresubmodules configuration variable can be used to squelch the
differences in submodules reported when running commands (e.g. "diff",
"status", etc.) at the superproject level.
* http.useragent configuration can be used to lie who you are to your
restrictive firewall.
* "git rebase --strategy <s>" learned "-X" option to pass extra options
that are understood by the chosen merge strategy.
* "git rebase -i" learned "exec" that you can insert into the insn sheet
to run a command between its steps.
* "git rebase" between branches that have many binary changes that do
not conflict should be faster.
* "git rebase -i" peeks into rebase.autosquash configuration and acts as
if you gave --autosquash from the command line.
This fixes http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2542.
Changes since 1.7.0.5:
* "git diff --stat" used "int" to count the size of differences,
which could result in overflowing.
* "git rev-list --abbrev-commit" defaulted to 40-byte abbreviations, unlike
newer tools in the git toolset.
* "make NO_CURL=NoThanks install" was broken.
* An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds
access to an array on the stack.
* "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var
that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable
was not set.
ChangeLogs:
Updates since v1.6.6
--------------------
(subsystems)
* "git fast-import" updates; adds "option" and "feature" to detect the
mismatch between fast-import and the frontends that produce the input
stream.
* "git svn" support of subversion "merge tickets" and miscellaneous fixes.
* "gitk" and "git gui" translation updates.
* "gitweb" updates (code clean-up, load checking etc.)
(portability)
* Some more MSVC portability patches for msysgit port.
* Minimum Pthreads emulation for msysgit port.
(performance)
* More performance improvement patches for msysgit port.
(usability, bells and whistles)
* More commands learned "--quiet" and "--[no-]progress" options.
* Various commands given by the end user (e.g. diff.type.textconv,
and GIT_EDITOR) can be specified with command line arguments. E.g. it
is now possible to say "[diff "utf8doc"] textconv = nkf -w".
* "sparse checkout" feature allows only part of the work tree to be
checked out.
* HTTP transfer can use authentication scheme other than basic
(i.e./e.g. digest).
* Switching from a version of superproject that used to have a submodule
to another version of superproject that no longer has it did not remove
the submodule directory when it should (namely, when you are not
interested in the submodule at all and didn't clone/checkout).
* A new attribute conflict-marker-size can be used to change the size of
the conflict markers from the default 7; this is useful when tracked
contents (e.g. git-merge documentation) have strings that resemble the
conflict markers.
* A new syntax "<branch>@{upstream}" can be used on the command line to
substitute the name of the "upstream" of the branch. Missing branch
defaults to the current branch, so "git fetch && git merge @{upstream}"
will be equivalent to "git pull".
* "git am --resolved" has a synonym "git am --continue".
* "git branch --set-upstream" can be used to update the (surprise!) upstream,
i.e. where the branch is supposed to pull and merge from (or rebase onto).
* "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between
A and B.
* "git checkout -m path" to reset the work tree file back into the
conflicted state works even when you already ran "git add path" and
resolved the conflicts.
* "git commit --date='<date>'" can be used to override the author date
just like "git commit --author='<name> <email>'" can be used to
override the author identity.
* "git commit --no-status" can be used to omit the listing of the index
and the work tree status in the editor used to prepare the log message.
* "git commit" warns a bit more aggressively until you configure user.email,
whose default value almost always is not (and fundamentally cannot be)
what you want.
* "git difftool" has been extended to make it easier to integrate it
with gitk.
* "git fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update".
* "git grep" does not rely on external grep anymore. It can use more than
one thread to accelerate the operation.
* "git grep" learned "--quiet" option.
* "git log" and friends learned "--glob=heads/*" syntax that is a more
flexible way to complement "--branches/--tags/--remotes".
* "git merge" learned to pass options specific to strategy-backends. E.g.
- "git merge -Xsubtree=path/to/directory" can be used to tell the subtree
strategy how much to shift the trees explicitly.
- "git merge -Xtheirs" can be used to auto-merge as much as possible,
while discarding your own changes and taking merged version in
conflicted regions.
* "git push" learned "git push origin --delete branch", a syntactic sugar
for "git push origin :branch".
* "git push" learned "git push --set-upstream origin forker:forkee" that
lets you configure your "forker" branch to later pull from "forkee"
branch at "origin".
* "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the
merge base between A and B.
* "git rebase -i" learned new action "fixup" that squashes the change
but does not affect existing log message.
* "git rebase -i" also learned --autosquash option that is useful
together with the new "fixup" action.
* "git remote" learned set-url subcommand that updates (surprise!) url
for an existing remote nickname.
* "git rerere" learned "forget path" subcommand. Together with "git
checkout -m path" it will be useful when you recorded a wrong
resolution.
* Use of "git reset --merge" has become easier when resetting away a
conflicted mess left in the work tree.
* "git rerere" had rerere.autoupdate configuration but there was no way
to countermand it from the command line; --no-rerere-autoupdate option
given to "merge", "revert", etc. fixes this.
* "git status" learned "-s(hort)" output format.
(developers)
* The infrastructure to build foreign SCM interface has been updated.
* Many more commands are now built-in.
* THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH is no more. If you build with threads, delta
compression will always take advantage of it.
Fixes since v1.6.6
------------------
* "git branch -d branch" used to refuse deleting the branch even when
the branch is fully merged to its upstream branch if it is not merged
to the current branch. It now deletes it in such a case.
* "fiter-branch" command incorrectly said --prune-empty and --filter-commit
were incompatible; the latter should be read as --commit-filter.
* When using "git status" or asking "git diff" to compare the work tree
with something, they used to consider that a checked-out submodule with
uncommitted changes is not modified; this could cause people to forget
committing these changes in the submodule before committing in the
superproject. They now consider such a change as a modification and
"git diff" will append a "-dirty" to the work tree side when generating
patch output or when used with the --submodule option.
Fixes since v1.7.0
------------------
* In a freshly created repository "rev-parse HEAD^0" complained that
it is dangling symref, even though "rev-parse HEAD" didn't.
* "git show :no-such-name" tried to access the index without bounds
check, leading to a potential segfault.
* Message from "git cherry-pick" was harder to read and use than necessary
when it stopped due to conflicting changes.
* We referred to ".git/refs/" throughout the documentation when we
meant to talk about abstract notion of "ref namespace". Because
people's repositories often have packed refs these days, this was
confusing.
* "git diff --output=/path/that/cannot/be/written" did not correctly
error out.
* "git grep -e -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." could not be
spelled as "git grep -- -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." which
would be a GNU way to use "--" as "end of options".
* "git grep" compiled with threading support tried to access an
uninitialized mutex on boxes with a single CPU.
* "git stash pop -q --index" failed because the unnecessary --index
option was propagated to "git stash drop" that is internally run at the
end.
Fixes since v1.7.0.1
--------------------
* GIT_PAGER was not honored consistently by some scripted Porcelains, most
notably "git am".
* updating working tree files after telling git to add them to the
index and while it is still working created garbage object files in
the repository without diagnosing it as an error.
* "git bisect -- pathspec..." did not diagnose an error condition properly when
the simplification with given pathspec made the history empty.
* "git rev-list --cherry-pick A...B" now has an obvious optimization when the
histories haven't diverged (i.e. when one end is an ancestor of the other).
* "git diff --quiet -w" did not work as expected.
* "git fast-import" didn't work with a large input, as it lacked support
for producing the pack index in v2 format.
* "git imap-send" didn't use CRLF line endings over the imap protocol
when storing its payload to the draft box, violating RFC 3501.
* "git log --format='%w(x,y,z)%b'" and friends that rewrap message
has been optimized for utf-8 payload.
* Error messages generated on the receiving end did not come back to "git
push".
* "git status" in 1.7.0 lacked the optimization we used to have in 1.6.X
* "gitweb" did not diagnose parsing errors properly while reading tis configuration
file.
Fixes since v1.7.0.2
--------------------
* Object files are created in a more ACL friendly way in repositories
where group permission is ACL controlled.
* "git add -i" didn't handle a deleted path very well.
* "git blame" padded line numbers with one extra SP when the total number
of lines was one less than multiple of ten due to an off-by-one error.
* "git fetch --all/--multi" used to discard information for remotes that
are fetched earlier.
* "git log --author=me --grep=it" tried to find commits that have "it"
or are written by "me", instead of the ones that have "it" _and_ are
written by "me".
* "git log -g branch" misbehaved when there was no entries in the reflog
for the named branch.
* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") incorrectly removed initial indent from
paragraphs.
* "git prune" and "git reflog" (hence "git gc" as well) didn't honor
an instruction never to expire by setting gc.reflogexpire to never.
* "git push" misbehaved when branch.<name>.merge was configured without
matching branch.<name>.remote.
Fixes since v1.7.0.3
--------------------
* Optimized ntohl/htonl on big-endian machines were broken.
* Color values given to "color.<cmd>.<slot>" configuration can now have
more than one attributes (e.g. "bold ul").
* "git add -u nonexistent-path" did not complain.
* "git apply --whitespace=fix" didn't work well when an early patch in
a patch series adds trailing blank lines and a later one depended on
such a block of blank lines at the end.
* "git fast-export" didn't check error status and stop when marks file
cannot be opened.
* "git format-patch --ignore-if-in-upstream" gave unwarranted errors
when the range was empty, instead of silently finishing.
* "git remote prune" did not detect remote tracking refs that became
dangling correctly.
Fixes since v1.7.0.4
--------------------
* "git daemon" failed to compile on platforms without sockaddr_storage type.
* Output from "git rev-list --pretty=oneline" was unparsable when a
commit did not have any message, which is abnormal but possible in a
repository converted from foreign scm.
* "git stash show <commit-that-is-not-a-stash>" gave an error message
that was not so useful. Reworded the message to "<it> is not a
stash".
* Python scripts in contrib/ area now start with "#!/usr/bin/env python"
to honor user's PATH.
* "git imap-send" used to mistake any line that begins with "From " as a
message separator in format-patch output.
* Smart http server backend failed to report an internal server error and
infinitely looped instead after output pipe was closed.
Changes:
* recursive merge didn't correctly diagnose its own programming errors,
and instead caused the caller to segfault.
* The new "smart http" aware clients probed the web servers to see if
they support smart http, but did not fall back to dumb http transport
correctly with some servers.
* Time based reflog syntax e.g. "@{yesterday}" didn't diagnose a misspelled
time specification and instead assumed "@{now}".
* "git archive HEAD -- no-such-directory" produced an empty archive
without complaining.
* "git blame -L start,end -- file" misbehaved when given a start that is
larger than the number of lines in the file.
* "git checkout -m" didn't correctly call custom merge backend supplied
by the end user.
* "git config -f <file>" misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.
* "git cvsserver" didn't like having regex metacharacters (e.g. '+') in
CVSROOT environment.
* "git fast-import" did not correctly handle large blobs that may
bust the pack size limit.
* "git gui" is supposed to work even when launched from inside a .git
directory.
* "git gui" misbehaved when applying a hunk that ends with deletion.
* "git imap-send" did not honor imap.preformattedHTML as documented.
* "git log" family incorrectly showed the commit notes unconditionally by
mistake, which was especially irritating when running "git log --oneline".
* "git status" shouldn't require an write access to the repository.
* Other minor documentation updates are included.
Changes:
* "git blame" did not work well when commit lacked the author name.
* "git branch -a name" wasn't diagnosed as an error.
* "git count-objects" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on
platforms with 32-bit off_t.
* "git checkout -m other" while on a branch that does not have any commit
segfaulted, instead of failing.
* "git fast-import" choked when fed a tag that do not point at a
commit.
* "git grep" finding from work tree files could have fed garbage to
the underlying regexec(3).
* "git grep -L" didn't show empty files (they should never match, and
they should always appear in -L output as unmatching).
* "git rebase -i" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor.
* "git reset --hard" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment
variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree.
* http-backend was not listed in the command list in the documentation.
* Building on FreeBSD (both 7 and 8) needs OLD_ICONV set in the Makefile
* "git checkout -m some-branch" while on an unborn branch crashed.
Git v1.6.6 Release Notes
========================
Notes on behaviour change
-------------------------
* In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and
checks packfiles, and because of this it will take much longer to
complete than before. If you prefer a quicker check only on loose
objects (the old default), you can say "git fsck --no-full". This
has been supported by 1.5.4 and newer versions of git, so it is
safe to write it in your script even if you use slightly older git
on some of your machines.
Preparing yourselves for compatibility issues in 1.7.0
------------------------------------------------------
In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.6, there will
be a handful of behaviour changes that will break backward compatibility.
These changes were discussed long time ago and existing behaviours have
been identified as more problematic to the userbase than keeping them for
the sake of backward compatibility.
When necessary, a transition strategy for existing users has been designed
not to force them running around setting configuration variables and
updating their scripts in order to either keep the traditional behaviour
or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install
the new version of git. When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in
1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition
guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated
during the entire transtion period, and ended up panicking on the day
their sysadmins updated their git installation. We are trying to avoid
repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release.
For changes decided to be in 1.7.0, commands that will be affected
have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination, and
they continue to be in this release. If you have been using recent
versions of git, you would have seen warnings issued when you used
features whose behaviour will change, with a clear instruction on how
to keep the existing behaviour if you want to. You hopefully are
already well prepared.
Of course, we have also been giving "this and that will change in
1.7.0; prepare yourselves" warnings in the release notes and
announcement messages for the past few releases. Let's see how well
users will fare this time.
* "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed by
HEAD in a repository that is not bare) will be refused by default.
Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed
in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current
branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default.
Setting the configuration variables receive.denyCurrentBranch and
receive.denyDeleteCurrent to 'ignore' in the receiving repository
can be used to override these safety features. Versions of git
since 1.6.2 have issued a loud warning when you tried to do these
operations without setting the configuration, so repositories of
people who still need to be able to perform such a push should
already have been future proofed.
Please refer to:
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-barehttp://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 process that already took place so far.
* "git send-email" will not make deep threads by default when sending a
patch series with more than two messages. All messages will be sent
as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter. Git 1.6.6 (this
release) will issue a warning about the upcoming default change, when
it uses the traditional "deep threading" behaviour as the built-in
default. To squelch the warning but still use the "deep threading"
behaviour, give --chain-reply-to option or set sendemail.chainreplyto
to true.
It has been possible to configure send-email to send "shallow thread"
by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false.
The only thing 1.7.0 release will do is to change the default when
you haven't configured that variable.
* "git status" will not be "git commit --dry-run". This change does not
affect you if you run the command without pathspec.
Nobody sane found the current behaviour of "git status Makefile" useful
nor meaningful, and it confused users. "git commit --dry-run" has been
provided as a way to get the current behaviour of this command since
1.6.5.
* "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options
only as a way to filter the patch output. "git diff --exit-code -b"
exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the
ammount of whitespace and nothing else. and "git diff -b" showed the
"diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text.
In 1.7.0, the "ignore whitespaces" will affect the semantics of the
diff operation itself. A change that does not affect anything but
whitespaces will be reported with zero exit status when run with
--exit-code, and there will not be "diff --git" header for such a
change.
Updates since v1.6.5
--------------------
(subsystems)
* various gitk updates including use of themed widgets under Tk 8.5,
Japanese translation, a fix to a bug when running "gui blame" from
a subdirectory, etc.
* various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states fixes,
Tk bug workaround after quitting, improved heuristics to trigger gc,
etc.
* various git-svn updates.
* "git fetch" over http learned a new mode that is different from the
traditional "dumb commit walker".
(portability)
* imap-send can be built on mingw port.
(performance)
* "git diff -B" has smaller memory footprint.
(usability, bells and whistles)
* The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects
global option given to the "git" program.
* In configuration files, a few variables that name paths can begin with ~/
and ~username/ and they are expanded as expected.
* "git subcmd -h" now shows short usage help for many more subcommands.
* "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit.
* "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there
is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to
start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch.
* "git commit -c/-C/--amend" can be told with a new "--reset-author" option
to ignore authorship information in the commit it is taking the message
from.
* "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option.
* "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs
instead of differences between the commit object names.
* "git diff" learned to honor diff.color.func configuration to paint
function name hint printed on the hunk header "@@ -j,k +l,m @@" line
in the specified color.
* "git fetch" learned --all and --multiple options, to run fetch from
many repositories, and --prune option to remove remote tracking
branches that went stale. These make "git remote update" and "git
remote prune" less necessary (there is no plan to remove "remote
update" nor "remote prune", though).
* "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the
default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full".
* "git grep" can use -F (fixed strings) and -i (ignore case) together.
* import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of
compressed tarballs.
* "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2.
* "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well.
* "git log" and "git rev-list" learned to take revs and pathspecs from
the standard input with the new "--stdin" option.
* "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned:
. to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier.
. to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier.
* "git notes" command to annotate existing commits.
* "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail
if the merge does not result in a fast-forward.
* "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge.
* "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately
starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to
the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the
contents.
* "git send-email" can be told with "--envelope-sender=auto" to use the
same address as "From:" address as the envelope sender address.
* "git send-email" will issue a warning when it defaults to the
--chain-reply-to behaviour without being told by the user and
instructs to prepare for the change of the default in 1.7.0 release.
* In "git submodule add <repository> <path>", <path> is now optional and
inferred from <repository> the same way "git clone <repository>" does.
* "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets.
* "git svn" learned to recreate empty directories tracked only by SVN.
* "gitweb" can optionally render its "blame" output incrementally (this
requires JavaScript on the client side).
* Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the
author.
Fixes since v1.6.5
------------------
All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes
========================
In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "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.
Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote
repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by
its HEAD, will be refused by default.
You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent 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-barehttp://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.
Updates since v1.6.4
--------------------
(subsystems)
* various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb.
(portability)
* more improvements on mingw port.
* mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS
environment variable when the user does not have one.
* initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC.
(performance)
* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
Mozilla.
* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
been removed.
* "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e.
referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags
hierarchy) anymore.
* The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged
in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing
commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now
implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we
used to.
* "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to
newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files,
but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the
cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid
this issue.
(usability, bells and whistles)
* Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday,
master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly.
* A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated
people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow
users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages
can be silenced now.
* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
transferred across repositories.
* "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences.
* "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly.
* "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
of an incoming e-mail.
* "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to
use with an explicit "--format=zip".option.
* "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".
* "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
different from the remote's default branch.
* "git clone" learned --recursive option.
* "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to
copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving
them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed.
* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
* "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a
separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge.
* "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even
when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file.
* "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when
reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
blobs.
* "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area.
* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
* "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server.
* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
give the reference name in full.
* "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected
that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local
uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it
clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm.
* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
* "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL
that is derived from the URL used for fetching.
* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
* "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
"foreach" subcommand.
* various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option.
* "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work
tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
the index.
* "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and
"git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes.
(developers)
* With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
* With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can
build for one location, and install into another location to tar it
up.
Fixes since v1.6.4
------------------
All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
Major changes:
* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting
of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc.
* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead
of "ISO-8859-1").
* Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.
* Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.
* Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.
* git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.
This version fixes the remote DoS problem in
http://secunia.com/advisories/35437/.
Major changes between 1.6.2 and 1.6.3:
* 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.
* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
optimized out.
* usuability improvements.
* bug fixes.
Major changes in 1.6.1:
When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager
internally, we used to make the pager the parent process of the git
command that produces output. This meant that the exit status of the
whole thing comes from the pager, not the underlying git command. We
swapped the order of the processes around and you will see the exit
code from the command from now on.
Major changes in 1.6.2:
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.
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.
security issues and to prepare for the outstanding upgrade of gitweb.
Changes since git 1.6.0.2:
- Fix output line format for zip archive generation.
- Fix continuation of git rebase -i in case of modified files (conflict).
- Honor the pre-rebase hook for git rebase -i.
- Fix inconsistent behavior of git diff --quiet and diff --exit-code.
- Use multiple element hunk headers from git diff correctly.
- Portability fix for the git diff hunk header regexps.
- Fix git index-pack inside .git/objects/pack directory.
- Fix git index-pack in thin-pack mode.
- Some git stash apply fixes.
- Fixed format string vulnerabilities (e.g. in git remote).
- Fix behavior of git checkout -b <existingbranch>.
- Make git checkout -q actually quiet.
- In quiet remote operation, we don't need the remote side to send along
all the statistics we discard.
- Don't do cross-directory renames when creating packs.
- git prune now also removes stale temp files under .git/objects/pack.
- Have git merge prune empty directories.
- Have git merge allocate enough memory for the structure itself when
enumerating the parents of the resulting commit.
- Stop git blame -C -C from segfaulting if it encounters a submodule
reference.
- If only file times were changed, don't have git rm claim local
modifications.
- If set-tree fails, don't let git svn output Perl compile errors.
- Fix various NULL pointer crashes (e.g. in apply, reset, update-index).
- Remove bash completion support for various non-space tools.
- Don't have git add -p claim no changes if binary files have been
modified.
- Fix git archive in bare repositories.
- Have git diff display the number of new or deleted files for the case
where there have been too many of them to allow rename detection.
- Fix git push --mirror to not try to send the stash.
- If the remote end is up to date, still update the tracking reference upon
git push.
- Make git pull $there $branch:$current_branch work on unborn branches.
- Have git reset --hard remove new paths after giving up resolving a
conflicting merge.
- Fix git send-email fd leak in directory scanning.
- Make submodule directories appear as tracked in git status.
- Have git svn invoke "git command" rather than "git-command".
- Have git update-ref -d honor --no-deref.
- Fix various memory leaks.
- Fix git checkout segfault when HEAD points to a deleted branch.
- Allow switching out of the current branch with git checkout on an
un-checked-out state.
- Have git fast-export export all tags.
- Make git ls-files --with-tree=<tree> work with options other than -c.
- If the first object in git pack-objects exceeds --max-pack-size, don't
stuff even more objects in.
- Stop git-p4 from replacing multilike keywords. (They don't exist.)
- Make git tag complain about mutually incompatible options.
- Fix performance for git internal diff on large files with repeating
chunks.
- Don't let git repack grab objects out of packs marked with .keep into
new packs.
- Fix git fsck deep recursion.
- Fix git fast-export and fast-import on old style annotated tags without
tagger information.
- Have git mergetool honor the "--".
- Fix segfault of git show <tag> where <tag> points at a nonexistent object.
- Fix handling of lists of mail addresses for git send-email.
- Fix branch ancestry logic in git svn if the history fetching process
was interrupted.
change ${.CURDIR}/../... to ../../devel/scmgit/...; makes
a lot more sense.
Fixes since v1.6.0.1
--------------------
* Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were
broken in 1.6.0.1.
* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did nto
work well.
* In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a
better example, instead of the "git-foo" form (which is an acceptable
form if you have "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH" in your script)
* Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used
with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings.
* Some systems needs to use compatibility fnmach and regex libraries
independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to
allow this.
* "git apply --unidiff-zero" incorrectly applied a -U0 patch that inserts
a new line before the second line.
* "git blame -c" did not exactly work like "git annotate" when range
boundaries are involved.
* "git checkout file" when file is still unmerged checked out contents from
a random high order stage, which was confusing.
* "git clone $there $here/" with extra trailing slashes after explicit
local directory name $here did not work as expected.
* "git diff" on tracked contents with CRLF line endings did not drive "less"
intelligently when showing added or removed lines.
* "git diff --dirstat -M" did not add changes in subdirectories up
correctly for renamed paths.
* "git diff --cumulative" did not imply "--dirstat".
* "git for-each-ref refs/heads/" did not work as expected.
* "git gui" allowed users to feed patch without any context to be applied.
* "git gui" botched parsing "diff" output when a line that begins with two
dashes and a space gets removed or a line that begins with two pluses
and a space gets added.
* "git gui" translation updates and i18n fixes.
* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while completing
a thin pack.
* "git log -i --grep=pattern" did not ignore case; neither "git log -E
--grep=pattern" triggered extended regexp.
* "git log --pretty="%ad" --date=short" did not use short format when
showing the timestamp.
* "git log --author=author" match incorrectly matched with the
timestamp part of "author " line in commit objects.
* "git log -F --author=author" did not work at all.
* Build procedure for "git shell" that used stub versions of some
functions and globals was not understood by linkers on some platforms.
* "git stash" was fooled by a stat-dirty but otherwise unmodified paths
and refused to work until the user refreshed the index.
* "git svn" was broken on Perl before 5.8 with recent fixes to reduce
use of temporary files.
* "git verify-pack -v" did not work correctly when given more than one
packfile.
Also contains many documentation updates.
GIT v1.6.0.1 Release Notes
==========================
Fixes since v1.6.0
------------------
* "git diff --cc" did not honor content mangling specified by
gitattributes and core.autocrlf when reading from the work tree.
* "git diff --check" incorrectly detected new trailing blank lines when
whitespace check was in effect.
* "git for-each-ref" tried to dereference NULL when asked for '%(body)" on
a tag with a single incomplete line as its payload.
* "git format-patch" peeked before the beginning of a string when
"format.headers" variable is empty (a misconfiguration).
* "git help help" did not work correctly.
* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") was unhappy when MIME multipart message
contained garbage after the finishing boundary.
* "git mailinfo" also was unhappy when the "From: " line only had a bare
e-mail address.
* "git merge" did not refresh the index correctly when a merge resulted in
a fast-forward.
* "git merge" did not resolve a truly trivial merges that can be done
without content level merges.
* "git svn dcommit" to a repository with URL that has embedded usernames
did not work correctly.
* Contains other various documentation fixes.
|GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes|
+========================+
User visible changes
- Templates now installed in ${PREFIX}/share/examples/scmgit/templates
and registered as REQD_FILES. Template subdirectories are
registered in MAKE_DIRS.
- Installing the many git-foo binaries/scripts into libexec/git-core
is now default and better supported. If you've written any
scripts or use any applications which expect the git-foo commands
to be in ${PREFIX}/bin, please do update them accordingly.
+--------------------+
|Updates since v1.5.6|
+--------------------+
(subsystems)
* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on
which branch to allow "submit" subcommand.
* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line.
(portability)
* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and
gangs.
* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
*.sample.
(documentation)
* Updated howto/update-hook-example
* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography
more consistent.
* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented.
(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
* index-pack used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain.
This has been optimized.
* 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.
* Performance of "git-blame -C -C" operation is vastly improved.
* 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)
* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop
the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful
when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working
tree, as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these
places.
* By default, stash entries never expire. Set reflogexpire in [gc
"refs/stash"] to a reasonable value to get traditional auto-expiration
behaviour back
* Longstanding latency issue with bash completion script has been
addressed. This will need to be backmerged to 'maint' later.
* pager.<cmd> configuration variable can be used to enable/disable the
default paging behaviour per command.
* "git-add -i" has a new action 'e/dit' to allow you edit the patch hunk
manually.
* git-am records the original tip of the branch in ORIG_HEAD before it
starts applying patches.
* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
much better than before.
* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
* git-apply can be told to apply a patch to a path deeper than what the
patch records with --directory option.
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
* git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating
zip archive.
* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their
parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands.
IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported.
* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics
similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch
is ahead/behind.
* git-branch's --contains option used to always require a commit parameter
to limit the branches with; it now defaults to list branches that
contains HEAD if this parameter is omitted.
* git-branch's --merged and --no-merged option used to always limit the
branches relative to the HEAD, but they can now take an optional commit
argument that is used in place of HEAD.
* git-bundle can read the revision arguments from the standard input.
* git-cherry-pick can replay a root commit now.
* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository.
* git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c".
* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in
BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to
chapter and part boundary in TeX documents.
* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
* fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks.
* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep
history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI
goes away now.
* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is
rewound.
* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution
with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable.
* git-rev-parse learned $commit^! and $commit^@ notations used in "log"
family. These notations are available in gitk as well, because the gitk
command internally uses rev-parse to interpret its arguments.
* git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it
encountered during the traversal, instead of showing parent commits.
* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
* git-shortlog honors custom output format specified with
"--pretty=format:".
* "git-stash save" learned --keep-index option. This lets you stash away
the local changes and bring the changes staged in the index to your
working tree for examination and testing.
* git-stash also learned branch subcommand to create a new branch out of
stashed changes.
* git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way
git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind.
* "git-svn dcommit" is now aware of auto-props setting the subversion user
has.
* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather
than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere.
(internal)
* git-merge has been reimplemented in C.
+------------------+
|Fixes since v1.5.6|
+------------------+
All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
* git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to
'maint';
* git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged
and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index
after moving such a path.
* "git-rebase -i -p" rewrote the parents to wrong ones when amending
(either edit or squash) was involved, and did not work correctly
when fast forwarding.
this ensures that git never has to install its own copy, thereby
avoiding future conflicts with devel/p5-Error. Plus, the pkgsrc
version is newer.
While here, set PKG_SYSCONFSUBDIR=git and explicitly specify sysconfdir
in CONFIGURE_ARGS. Remove trailing slash from GITCOREDIR.
Long list of changes since 1.5.6:
Fixes since v1.5.6.3
--------------------
* Various commands could overflow its internal buffer on a platform
with small PATH_MAX value in a repository that has contents with
long pathnames.
* There wasn't a way to make --pretty=format:%<> specifiers to honor
.mailmap name rewriting for authors and committers. Now you can with
%aN and %cN.
* Bash completion wasted too many cycles; this has been optimized to be
usable again.
* Bash completion lost ref part when completing something like "git show
pu:Makefile".
* "git-cvsserver" did not clean up its temporary working area after
annotate request.
* "git-daemon" called syslog() from its signal handler, which was a
no-no.
* "git-fetch" into an empty repository used to remind that the fetch will
be huge by saying "no common commits", but this was an unnecessary
noise; it is already known by the user anyway.
* "git-http-fetch" would have segfaulted when pack idx file retrieved
from the other side was corrupt.
* "git-index-pack" used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta
chain.
* "git-mailinfo" (hence "git-am") did not correctly handle in-body [PATCH]
line to override the commit title taken from the mail Subject header.
* "git-rebase -i -p" lost parents that are not involved in the history
being rewritten.
* "git-rm" lost track of where the index file was when GIT_DIR was
specified as a relative path.
* "git-rev-list --quiet" was not quiet as advertised.
Contains other various documentation fixes.
Fixes since v1.5.6.2
--------------------
* Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed
to make the repository group writable but should not affect permission
for others. However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission
for others when umask is 022, making the repository unreadable by others.
* Setting GIT_TRACE will report spawning of external process via
run_command().
* Using an object with very deep delta chain pinned memory needed for
extracting intermediate base objects unnecessarily long,
leading to excess memory usage.
* Bash completion script did not notice '--' marker on the command
line and tried the relatively slow "ref completion" even when
completing arguments after one.
* Registering a non-empty blob racily and then truncating the working
tree file for it confused "racy-git avoidance" logic into thinking
that the path is now unchanged.
* The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed
in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page.
* "git am" was not helpful to the users when it detected that the committer
information is not set up properly yet.
* "git clone" had a leftover debugging fprintf().
* "git clone -q" was not quiet enough as it used to and gave object count
and progress reports.
* "git clone" marked downloaded packfile with .keep; this could be a
good thing if the remote side is well packed but otherwise not,
especially for a project that is not really big.
* "git daemon" used to call syslog() from a signal handler, which
could raise signals of its own but generally is not reentrant. This
was fixed by restructuring the code to report syslog() after the handler
returns.
* When "git push" tries to remove a remote ref, and corresponding
tracking ref is missing, we used to report error (i.e. failure to
remove something that does not exist).
* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") did not handle commit log messages in a
MIME multipart mail correctly.
Futureproof
-----------
* "git-shell" accepts requests without a dash between "git" and
subcommand name (e.g. "git upload-pack") which the newer client will
start to make sometime in the future.
Fixes since v1.5.6.1
--------------------
* "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in
$HOME/.gitconfig did not work well.
* "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was
tagged with a lightweight tag.
* "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status
reliably.
* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
* "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file",
but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous.
* "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another
annotated tag was given to it.
* Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a
serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for
moderately large import.
* "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file
unnecessarily.
Fixes since v1.5.6
------------------
* Last minute change broke loose object creation on AIX.
* (performance fix) We used to make $GIT_DIR absolute path early in the
programs but keeping it relative to the current directory internally
gives 1-3 per-cent performance boost.
* bash completion knows the new --graph option to git-log family.
* git-diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context
boundary.
* git-for-each-ref ignored %(object) and %(type) requests for tag
objects.
* git-merge usage had a typo.
* Rebuilding of git-svn metainfo database did not take rewriteRoot
option into account.
* Running "git-rebase --continue/--skip/--abort" before starting a
rebase gave nonsense error messages.
by Makefile.common and Makefile. Add empty declarations of missing
variables in Makefile and remove inclusion of Makefile.common there.
This package should now build properly.
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