From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:24:11 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Sync with maint
X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3-rc0~118
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c511549e0c6848f00bd19f152b8ab42261ff5d0c;p=git.git

Sync with maint

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 +GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes
 +========================
 +
 +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
 +currently checked out will be refused by default.  You can choose
 +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
 +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.
 +
 +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
 +push running this release will issue a big warning when the
 +configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
 +
 +  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
 +  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
 +
 +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
 +transition plan.
 +
 +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
 +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
 +branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning.  You can choose what
 +should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
 +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
 +
 +
 +Updates since v1.6.2
 +--------------------
 +
 +(subsystems)
 +
 +(performance)
 +
 +* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
 +  optimized out.
 +
 +(usability, bells and whistles)
 +
 +* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
 +  repositories.  It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
 +  testing.
 +
 +* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
 +  be handled appropriately in Windows console.
 +
 +* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
 +  spelled as "--format=<style>".  In addition, --format=%formatstring
 +  is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
 +
 +* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit".
 +
 +* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
 +  with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
 +  tell git not to apply it.
 +
 +* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
 +
 +* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
 +  is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
 +
 +* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame.
 +
 +* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
 +  interest of each tracked remote repository.
 +
 +* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
 +  directly.
 +
 +* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
 +
 +* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
 +  format.attach.
 +
 +* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
 +
 +* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
 +
 +* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
 +  disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
 +
 +* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a
 +  descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase
 +  option.
 +
 +* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option.
 +
 +* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
 +
 +* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
 +  sending the messages out.
 +
 +(developers)
 +
 +* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
 +
 +* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
 +  coverage tracking enabled.
 +
 +Fixes since v1.6.2
 +------------------
 +
 +All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this
 +release, unless otherwise noted.
 +
 +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
 +v1.6.2.X series.
 +
- * "git diff --pickaxe-regexp" did not count overlapping matches
-   correctly (backport by cherry-picking 50fd699).
- 
- * "git-fetch" in a repository that was not cloned from anywhere said
-   it cannot find 'origin', which was hard to understand for new people.
- 
 +* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
 +  in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
 +
- * "git-ls-files --deleted" did not work well with GIT_DIR&GIT_WORK_TREE
-   (backport by cherry-picking 8ad3dae).
- 
- * "git-read-tree A B C..." without -m option has been broken for a long time
-   (backport by merging jc/maint-1.6.0-read-tree-overlay)
- 
- * 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the
-   path it accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient
-  (if needed, backport by merging db75ada).
- 
- * git-send-email ignored --in-reply-to when --no-thread was given
-   (backport by merging tr/maint-1.6.0-send-email-irt)
- 
 +---
 +exec >/var/tmp/1
 +O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7
 +echo O=$(git describe master)
 +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint