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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index de7ef166b692..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,258 +0,0 @@ -GIT v1.6.0 Release Notes -======================== - -User visible changes --------------------- - -With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now -installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and -some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical -reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command -line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in -1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding -output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this -release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their -scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing -"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases. - -An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly unpopular -and has been reverted. - -Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the -main git.git codebase. - -By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset -encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that -allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, -introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories -backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset -to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively. - -We used to prevent sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ from -triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as -unexecutable, but on some filesystems, this approach does not work. -They are now shipped with ".sample" suffix. If you want to activate -any of these samples as-is, rename them to drop the ".sample" suffix, -instead of running "chmod +x" on them. For example, you can rename -hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update to enable the sample -hook that runs update-server-info, in order to make repositories -friendly to dumb protocols (i.e. HTTP). - -GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but -actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". -GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and -not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed. - -The ".dotest" temporary area "git am" and "git rebase" use is now moved -inside the $GIT_DIR, to avoid mistakes of adding it to the project by -accident. - -An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed. - - -Updates since v1.5.6 --------------------- - -(subsystems) - -* git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on - which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. - -* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line. - -(portability) - -* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and - gangs. - -* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with - *.sample. - -* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows; - some tests are rewritten to cope with this. - -(documentation) - -* Updated howto/update-hook-example - -* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography - more consistent. - -* Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. - -(performance, robustness, sanity etc.) - -* index-pack used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain. - This has been optimized. - -* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary. - -* verify-pack checks the object CRC when using version 2 idx files. - -* When an object is corrupt in a pack, the object became unusable even - when the same object is available in a loose form, We now try harder to - fall back to these redundant objects when able. In particular, "git - repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary - objects are available. - -* Performance of "git-blame -C -C" operation is vastly improved. - -* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as - if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help - repositories with insanely large number of refs. - -* core.fsyncobjectfiles configuration can be used to ensure that the loose - objects created will be fsync'ed (this is only useful on filesystems - that does not order data writes properly). - -* "git commit-tree" plumbing can make Octopus with more than 16 parents. - "git commit" has been capable of this for quite some time. - -(usability, bells and whistles) - -* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help". - -* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop - the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful - when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree, - as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places. - -* By default, stash entries never expire. Set reflogexpire in [gc - "refs/stash"] to a reasonable value to get traditional auto-expiration - behaviour back - -* Longstanding latency issue with bash completion script has been - addressed. This will need to be backmerged to 'maint' later. - -* pager.<cmd> configuration variable can be used to enable/disable the - default paging behaviour per command. - -* "git-add -i" has a new action 'e/dit' to allow you edit the patch hunk - manually. - -* git-am records the original tip of the branch in ORIG_HEAD before it - starts applying patches. - -* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once - much better than before. - -* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input - patch but recount, with the new --recount option. - -* git-apply can be told to apply a patch to a path deeper than what the - patch records with --directory option. - -* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using - export-ignore attributes. - -* git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating - zip archive. - -* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their - parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands. - IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported. - -* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics - similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch - is ahead/behind. - -* git-branch's --contains option used to always require a commit parameter - to limit the branches with; it now defaults to list branches that - contains HEAD if this parameter is omitted. - -* git-branch's --merged and --no-merged option used to always limit the - branches relative to the HEAD, but they can now take an optional commit - argument that is used in place of HEAD. - -* git-bundle can read the revision arguments from the standard input. - -* git-cherry-pick can replay a root commit now. - -* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by - configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now. - -* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository. - -* git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c". - -* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers. - -* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in - BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to - chapter and part boundary in TeX documents. - -* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now - it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking - branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest - pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set - of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. - -* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to - interface with fast-import incrementally. - -* fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks. - -* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep - history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes - away now. - -* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is - rewound. - -* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution - with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable. - -* git-rev-parse learned $commit^! and $commit^@ notations used in "log" - family. These notations are available in gitk as well, because the gitk - command internally uses rev-parse to interpret its arguments. - -* git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it - encountered during the traversal, instead of showing parent commits. - -* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. - -* git-shortlog honors custom output format specified with "--pretty=format:". - -* "git-stash save" learned --keep-index option. This lets you stash away the - local changes and bring the changes staged in the index to your working - tree for examination and testing. - -* git-stash also learned branch subcommand to create a new branch out of - stashed changes. - -* git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way - git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind. - -* "git-svn dcommit" is now aware of auto-props setting the subversion user - has. - -* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking - untracked files with --untracked-files=no. - -* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. - -* Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather - than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. - -(internal) - -* git-merge has been reimplemented in C. - - -Fixes since v1.5.6 ------------------- - -All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in -this release, unless otherwise noted. - - * git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to - 'maint'; - - * git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged - and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index - after moving such a path. - - * "git-rebase -i -p" rewrote the parents to wrong ones when amending - (either edit or squash) was involved, and did not work correctly - when fast forwarding. - |