{"thread":{"id":"2005","subject":"GIT 0.99.8","startedAt":"2005-10-03T00:12:13Z","lastAt":"2005-10-03T00:12:13Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"9618","messageId":"7vfyrjxxuq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"2005","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"GIT 0.99.8","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2005-10-03T00:12:13Z","receivedAt":"2005-10-03T00:12:13Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Here is 0.99.8.  GIT has been doing everything I personally\nwanted it to do since mid 0.99.7, and now it has almost\neverything I want it to contain, except for a couple of minor\npoints.  I feel that we are ready to finish the last mile for\n1.0.  Many thanks to everybody who contributed the comments,\neyeballs, and code.\n\n\nDone in 0.99.8\n==============\n\nNew Features, Commands, and Enhancements\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\n* 'git pull' now uses 'git-merge' instead of 'git-resolve', so you can\n  specify alternative merge strategy to use on its command line.\n\n* 'git pull -s recursive' has been taught about renaming merges,\n  which may deal with HPA's klibc vs klibc-kbuild situation better.\n\n* Symbolic refs -- instead of using symlinks to express .git/HEAD,\n  you can have a regular file that stores a single line\n  'ref: refs/heads/master' in it.\n\n  git-update-ref is the preferred way to write into .git/HEAD,\n  not \"echo >.git/HEAD\".  git-symbolic-ref is the preferred way\n  to check which underlying ref a symbolic ref .git/HEAD refers\n  to, not \"readlink .git/HEAD\".\n\n* A couple of new diff options (-l<num> and --name-status).\n\n* Commit walker over http acquired more SSL options.\n\n* 'git clone' checks out the working tree by default.\n\n\nFixes\n~~~~~\n\n* Removed unused commands (diff-helper, rev-tree, and export).\n\n* Platforms with only Python 2.3 installed can use recursive merge\n  strategy.\n\n* Octopus documented.\n\n* Merge is more careful noticing potentially ambiguous situation. \n\n* Git pull does not blindly do Octopus when Pull: lines in remotes\n  file specifies more than one remote branches.\n\n* Commit walker got safer to use after interrupted downloads.\n\n* Commit walker over http can resume partial downloads.\n\n* More portability fixes for BSD and Solaris.\n"}]}