When necessary, transition strategy for existing users has been designed
not to force them running around setting configuration variables and
-updating their scripts in order to keep the traditional 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.
+updating their scripts in order to either keep the traditional behaviour
+or use 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 tried very hard to
+avoid repeating that unpleasantness.
For changes decided to be in 1.7.0, we have been much louder to strongly
discourage such procrastination. If you have been using recent versions
of git, you would have already seen warnings issued when you exercised
-features whose behaviour will change, with the instruction on how to keep
-the existing behaviour if you choose to. You hopefully should be well
-prepared already.
+features whose behaviour will change, with the instruction on how to
+keep the existing behaviour if you want to. You hopefully should be
+well prepared already.
-Of course, we have also given "this and that will change in 1.7.0; prepare
-yourselves" warnings in the release notes and announcement messages.
-Let's see how well users will fare this time.
+Of course, we have also given "this and that will change in 1.7.0;
+prepare yourselves" warnings in the release notes and announcement
+messages. 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.
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 them
without setting the configuration, so repositories of people who
- still need to be able to perform such a push should already been
- future proofed.
+ still need to be able to perform such a push should already have
+ been future proofed.
Please refer to:
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. It has been possible
- to configure send-email to do this by setting sendemail.chainreplyto
- configuration variable to false. The only thing the new release will
- do is to change the default when you haven't configured that variable.
+ 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.
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
* "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail
if the merge does not result in a fast-forward.
+ * The ancient "git merge <message> HEAD <branch>..." syntax will be
+ removed in later versions of git. A warning is given and tells
+ users to use the "git merge -m <message> <branch>..." instead.
+
* "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge.
* "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately
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.
+ * "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.
All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
+ * Enumeration of available merge strategies iterated over the list of
+ commands in a wrong way, sometimes producing an incorrect result.
+ Will backport by merging ed87465 (builtin-merge.c: call
+ exclude_cmds() correctly., 2009-11-25).
+
+ * "git format-patch revisions... -- path" issued an incorrect error
+ message that suggested to use "--" on the command line when path
+ does not exist in the current work tree (it is a separate matter if
+ it makes sense to limit format-patch with pathspecs like that
+ without using the --full-diff option). Will backport by merging
+ 7e93d3b (format-patch: add test for parsing of "--", 2009-11-26).
+
+ * "git shortlog" did not honor the "encoding" header embedded in the
+ commit object like "git log" did. Will backport by merging 79f7ca0
+ (shortlog: respect commit encoding, 2009-11-25).
+
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
-O=v1.6.6-rc0-62-g7fc9d15
+O=v1.6.6-rc0-96-gb5d4cf2
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint
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