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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7b152a6fdc..0000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,280 +0,0 @@ -GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes -======================== - -Updates since v1.6.0 --------------------- - -When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we -used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces -output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the -pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the -processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now -on. - -(subsystems) - -* gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn - can run gitk from its blame view. - -* Various git-gui updates including updated translations. - -* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation. - -* Updates to emacs bindings. - -(portability) - -* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on - some platforms, e.g. Solaris. - -* Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support. - -* Makefile has support for (ancient) FreeBSD 4.9. - -(performance) - -* Many operations that are lstat(3) heavy can be told to pre-execute - necessary lstat(3) in parallel before their main operations, which - potentially gives much improved performance for cold-cache cases or in - environments with weak metadata caching (e.g. NFS). - -* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been - optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing. - -* Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers) - can be run in parallel. - -* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of - refs has been optimized. - -* Cygwin port uses native stat/lstat implementations when applicable, - which leads to improved performance. - -* "git push" pays attention to alternate repositories to avoid sending - unnecessary objects. - -* "git svn" can rebuild an out-of-date rev_map file. - -(usability, bells and whistles) - -* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses - you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set - to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely - guess. - -* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with - corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are - available elsewhere. - -* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that - subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events. - -* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage - changes" instead of "add contents to the staging area" which amounts - to the same thing. - -* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing - --exclude=paths option. - -* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of - merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad. - -* "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits. - -* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding - by default. - -* "git check-attr --stdin" can check attributes for multiple paths. - -* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now - DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you - said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack". - -* "git checkout --ours/--theirs" can be used to check out one side of a - conflicting merge during conflict resolution. - -* "git checkout -m" can be used to recreate the initial conflicted state - during conflict resolution. - -* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution. - -* "git clone" learned to be verbose with -v - -* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing - commits. - -* output from "git commit" has been reworded in a more concise and yet - more informative way. - -* "git count-objects" reports the on-disk footprint for packfiles and - their corresponding idx files. - -* "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option. - -* "git daemon" exports REMOTE_ADDR to record client address, so that - spawned programs can act differently on it. - -* "git describe --tags" favours closer lightweight tags than farther - annotated tags now. - -* "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a - configuration option. - -* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python, - HTML and ObjC contents. - -* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are - being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration. - -* "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number - of lines, when summarizing the global picture. - -* "git diff" learned "textconv" filters --- a binary or hard-to-read - contents can be munged into human readable form and the difference - between the results of the conversion can be viewed (obviously this - cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in - format-patch among other things). - -* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged", - to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the - contents staged in the index?" - -* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an - unambiguously abbreviated refname. - -* Auto-numbering of the subject lines is the default for "git - format-patch" now. - -* "git grep" learned to accept -z similar to GNU grep. - -* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before - using "man" program. - -* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL. - -* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while - completing a thin pack. - -* "git log --check" and "git log --exit-code" passes their underlying diff - status with their exit status code. - -* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history; - "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history. - -* "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached - from. - -* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decoration" to show the - birds-eye-view of the topology of the history. - -* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts - names of tags that point at the commit. - -* "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are - noticed as user errors. - -* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a - command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH. - -* "git pull" (and "git fetch") can be told to operate "-v"erbosely or - "-q"uietly. - -* "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes - configuration. - -* "git rebase" honours pre-rebase hook; use --no-verify to bypass it. - -* "git rebase -p" uses interactive rebase machinery now to preserve the merges. - -* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire - refs/heads/branch". - -* "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now. - -* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and - maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to - generate patches for the given revision range. - -* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked - out submodules. - -* "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL - recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file. - -* "git svn branch" can create new branches on the other end. - -* "gitweb" can use more saner PATH_INFO based URL. - -(internal) - -* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that - correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents - stored in a temporary file. - -* various callers of git-merge-recursive avoid forking it as an external - process. - -* Git class defined in "Git.pm" can be subclasses a bit more easily. - -* We used to link GNU regex library as a compatibility layer for some - platforms, but it turns out it is not necessary on most of them. - -* Some path handling routines used fixed number of buffers used alternately - but depending on the call depth, this arrangement led to hard to track - bugs. This issue is being addressed. - - -Fixes since v1.6.0 ------------------- - -All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this -release, unless otherwise noted. - -* Porcelains implemented as shell scripts were utterly confused when you - entered to a subdirectory of a work tree from sideways, following a - symbolic link (this may need to be backported to older releases later). - -* Tracking symbolic links would work better on filesystems whose lstat() - returns incorrect st_size value for them. - -* "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S - is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in - it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F - is a path in it). - -* "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and - --3way options given from the command line initially. - -* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them, - but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has - been resurrected. - -* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. - -* "git http-push" did not understand URI scheme other than opaquelocktoken - when acquiring a lock from the server (this may need to be backported to - older releases later). - -* After "git rebase -p" stopped with conflicts while replaying a merge, - "git rebase --continue" did not work (may need to be backported to older - releases). - -* "git revert" records relative to which parent a revert was made when - reverting a merge. Together with new documentation that explains issues - around reverting a merge and merging from the updated branch later, this - hopefully will reduce user confusion (this may need to be backported to - older releases later). - -* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to - be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has - since been modified. - -* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without - telling saying these two options are incompatible. - -* "git log --author/--committer" match used to potentially match the - timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did - not work with --fixed-strings match at all. - -* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments - correctly. |