Git Releases

v1.6.5.2

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:38:00 +0000

GIT v1.6.5.2 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.5.1 -------------------- * Installation of templates triggered a bug in busybox when using tar implementation from it. * "git add -i" incorrectly ignored paths that are already in the index if they matched .gitignore patterns. * "git describe --always" should have produced some output even there were no tags in the repository, but it didn't. * "git ls-files" when showing tracked files incorrectly paid attention to the exclude patterns. Other minor documentation updates are included.

v1.6.5.1

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:57:37 +0000

GIT v1.6.5.1 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.5 ------------------ * An corrupt pack could make codepath to read objects into an infinite loop. * Download throughput display was always shown in KiB/s but on fast links it is more appropriate to show it in MiB/s. * "git grep -f filename" used uninitialized variable and segfaulted. * "git clone -b branch" gave a wrong commit object name to post-checkout hook. * "git pull" over http did not work on msys. Other minor documentation updates are included.

v1.6.5

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:14:59 +0000

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-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. 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.

v1.6.4.4

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:59:12 +0000

GIT v1.6.4.4 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.4.4 -------------------- * The workaround for Github server that sometimes gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD requests in 1.6.4.3 introduced a regression that caused re-fetching projects over http to segfault in certain cases due to uninitialized pointer being freed. * "git pull" on an unborn branch used to consider anything in the work tree and the index discardable. * "git diff -b/w" did not work well on the incomplete line at the end of the file, due to an incorrect hashing of lines in the low-level xdiff routines. * "git checkout-index --prefix=$somewhere" used to work when $somewhere is a symbolic link to a directory elsewhere, but v1.6.4.2 broke it. * "git unpack-objects --strict", invoked when receive.fsckobjects configuration is set in the receiving repository of "git push", did not properly check the objects, especially the submodule links, it received. Other minor documentation updates are included.

v1.6.4.3

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:28:32 +0000

GIT v1.6.4.3 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.4.2 -------------------- * "git clone" from an empty repository gave unnecessary error message, even though it did everything else correctly. * "git cvsserver" invoked git commands via "git-foo" style, which has long been deprecated. * "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the presense of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx file by issuing a HEAD request. Github server however sometimes gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke clone over HTTP from some of their repositories. As a workaround, this verification has been removed (as it is not absolutely necessary). * "git grep" did not like relative pathname to refer outside the current directory when run from a subdirectory. * an error message from "git push" was formatted in a very ugly way. * "git svn" did not quote the subversion user name correctly when running its author-prog helper program. Other minor documentation updates are included.

v1.6.4.2

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:31:10 +0000

GIT v1.6.4.2 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.4.1 -------------------- * --date=relative output between 1 and 5 years ago rounded the number of years when saying X years Y months ago, instead of rounding it down. * "git add -p" did not handle changes in executable bits correctly (a regression around 1.6.3). * "git apply" did not honor GNU diff's convention to mark the creation/deletion event with UNIX epoch timestamp on missing side. * "git checkout" incorrectly removed files in a directory pointed by a symbolic link during a branch switch that replaces a directory with a symbolic link. * "git clean -d -f" happily descended into a subdirectory that is managed by a separate git repository. It now requires two -f options for safety. * "git fetch/push" over http transports had two rather grave bugs. * "git format-patch --cover-letter" did not prepare the cover letter file for use with non-ASCII strings when there are the series contributors with non-ASCII names. * "git pull origin branch" and "git fetch origin && git merge origin/branch" left different merge messages in the resulting commit. Other minor documentation updates are included.

v1.6.4.1

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:16:31 +0000

GIT v1.6.4.1 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.4 ------------------ * An unquoted value in the configuration file, when it contains more than one whitespaces in a row, got them replaced with a single space. * "git am" used to accept a single piece of e-mail per file (not a mbox) as its input, but multiple input format support in v1.6.4 broke it. Apparently many people have been depending on this feature. * The short help text for "git filter-branch" command was a single long line, wrapped by terminals, and was hard to read. * The "recursive" strategy of "git merge" segfaulted when a merge has more than one merge-bases, and merging of these merge-bases involves a rename/rename or a rename/add conflict. * "git pull --rebase" did not use the right fork point when the repository has already fetched from the upstream that rewinds the branch it is based on in an earlier fetch. * Explain the concept of fast-forward more fully in "git push" documentation, and hint to refer to it from an error message when the command refuses an update to protect the user. * The default value for pack.deltacachesize, used by "git repack", is now 256M, instead of unbounded. Otherwise a repack of a moderately sized repository would needlessly eat into swap. * Document how "git repack" (hence "git gc") interacts with a repository that borrows its objects from other repositories (e.g. ones created by "git clone -s"). * "git show" on an annotated tag lacked a delimiting blank line between the tag itself and the contents of the object it tags. * "git verify-pack -v" erroneously reported number of objects with too deep delta depths as "chain length 0" objects. * Long names of authors and committers outside US-ASCII were sometimes incorrectly shown in "gitweb". Other minor documentation updates are included.

v1.6.4

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:32:52 +0000

GIT v1.6.4 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. Updates since v1.6.3 -------------------- (subsystems) * gitweb Perl style clean-up. * 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. (portability) * 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. (performance) * 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. (usability, bells and whistles) * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what is added to the index. * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input. * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is already known to be untestable. * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion * "git fast-export" learned to handle history simplification more gracefully. * "git fast-export" learned an option --tag-of-filtered-object to handle dangling tags resulting from history simplification more usefully. * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the same context hunk marker "git diff" uses. * https transport can optionally be told that the used client certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the password only once. * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware. * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines when able. * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known refs/* prefix. * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching and pushing can be different. * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might have to be backported to 1.6.3.X). * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail..from"). * "git show-branch" can color its output. * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference option to use local clone with references. * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked out submodules by rebasing the local changes. * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names. (developers) * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C. * Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported. Fixes since v1.6.3 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to v1.6.3.X series. * "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked to backport this fix. * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location as an absolute path when autodetected. * Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost that variable definition. * "git rebase -p --onto" used to always leave side branches of a merge intact, even when both branches are subject to rewriting. * "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit. After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting the repository. * "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion.

v1.6.3.4

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:59:32 +0000

GIT v1.6.3.4 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.3.3 -------------------- * "git add --no-ignore-errors" did not override configured add.ignore-errors configuration. * "git apply --whitespace=fix" did not fix trailing whitespace on an incomplete line. * "git branch" opened too many commit objects unnecessarily. * "git checkout -f $commit" with a path that is a file (or a symlink) in the work tree to a commit that has a directory at the path issued an unnecessary error message. * "git diff -c/--cc" was very inefficient in coalescing the removed lines shared between parents. * "git diff -c/--cc" showed removed lines at the beginning of a file incorrectly. * "git remote show nickname" did not honor configured remote.nickname.uploadpack when inspecting the branches at the remote. * "git request-pull" when talking to the terminal for a preview showed some of the output in the pager. * "git request-pull start nickname [end]" did not honor configured remote.nickname.uploadpack when it ran git-ls-remote against the remote repository to learn the current tip of branches. Includes other documentation updates and minor fixes.