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A new release of git, 1.6.6.1-1, has been uploaded, and will be available for use when your mirror catches up. This replaces 1.6.4.2-1 as current. NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream major release. I'm attaching the release notes; see also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git/. When compiled out of the box, the upstream git maintainers cater to older cygwin releases, and intentionally disable certain features that have been reported on their mailing list, even though they work with the latest cygwin. Therefore, this build turns those features back on. However, it means that this version does assume that you are not using FAT or FAT32 to hold your repositories, since they do not store file permissions very accurately. There have been several reports of git over ssh causing problems. The root cause of this problem is not yet known; help in debugging the issue would be appreciated. In the meantime, if you have difficulty cloning a repository over the git protocol, try cloning from an http mirror instead. DESCRIPTION: ============ Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or BitKeeper in the proprietary world). Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'git', 'gitk', 'git-gui', 'git-svn', and/or 'git-completion' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin git maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN.COM@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.
Git v1.6.6.1 Release Notes
==========================
Fixes since v1.6.6
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* "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.
Other minor documentation updates are included.
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-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 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-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.
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