From eaf1c941bbc10f5aa67fcf64e316fb548b910cfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:50:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] GIT 1.6.5-rc1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt index e560af14a..25529f723 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.5.txt @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 * 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. + (performance) * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's @@ -48,11 +51,28 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has been removed. + * 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. @@ -83,6 +103,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 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"). @@ -91,8 +113,16 @@ Updates since v1.6.4 * "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 $another_branch". @@ -126,5 +156,6 @@ Fixes since v1.6.4 -- exec >/var/tmp/1 O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c +O=v1.6.5-rc0-49-g5f2b1e6 echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint -- 2.26.2