{"thread":{"id":"20235","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc3","startedAt":"2009-07-26T08:16:40Z","lastAt":"2009-07-27T05:13:11Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Chris Hills","Uwe Kleine-König"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"118818","messageId":"7vws5vrh93.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"20235","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc3","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2009-07-26T08:16:40Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-26T08:16:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"A release candidate GIT 1.6.4.rc3 is available at the usual places\nfor testing:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  testing/git-*-1.6.4.rc3-1.fc9.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nAn embarrassing and serious bug in \"git am/apply\" that was in 1.6.4-rc2\nhas been squashed, and this snapshot should be both safe to use and is\nexpected to be the last -rc before the real thing.  Please give it a good\nbeating.\n\n\nGIT v1.6.4 Release Notes (draft)\n================================\n\nWith the next major release, \"git push\" into a branch that is\ncurrently checked out will be refused by default.  You can choose\nwhat should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration\nvariable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.\n\nTo ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a\npush running this release will issue a big warning when the\nconfiguration variable is missing.  Please refer to:\n\n  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare\n  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007\n\nfor more details on the reason why this change is needed and the\ntransition plan.\n\nFor a similar reason, \"git push $there :$killed\" to delete the branch\n$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current\nbranch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning.  You can choose what\nshould happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable\nreceive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.\n\n\nUpdates since v1.6.3\n--------------------\n\n(subsystems)\n\n * gitweb Perl style clean-up.\n\n * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author\n   names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind\n   'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting\n   of the useful --minimize-url feature, new \"git svn gc\" command, etc.\n\n(portability)\n\n * We feed iconv with \"UTF-8\" instead of \"utf8\"; the former is\n   understood more widely.  Similarly updated test scripts to use\n   encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use \"ISO8859-1\" instead\n   of \"ISO-8859-1\").\n\n * Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of\n   SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.\n\n * Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.\n\n(performance)\n\n * Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in \"checkout\" codepath.\n\n * git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized\n   to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.\n\n(usability, bells and whistles)\n\n * \"git add --edit\" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what\n   is added to the index.\n\n * \"git am\" accepts StGIT series file as its input.\n\n * \"git bisect skip\" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope\n   to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is\n   already known to be untestable.\n\n * \"git cvsexportcommit\" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion\n\n * \"git grep\" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the\n   same context hunk marker \"git diff\" uses.\n\n * https transport can optionally be told that the used client\n   certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the\n   password only once.\n\n * \"git imap-send\" is IPv6 aware.\n\n * \"git log --graph\" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines\n   when able.\n\n * \"git log --decorate\" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known\n   refs/* prefix.\n\n * \"git push $name\" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before\n   using remote.$name.url.  In other words, the URL used for fetching\n   and pushing can be different.\n\n * \"git send-email\" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might\n   have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).\n\n * \"git send-email\" can fetch the sender address from the configuration\n   variable \"sendmail.from\" (and \"sendmail.<identity>.from\").\n\n * \"git show-branch\" can color its output.\n\n * \"add\" and \"update\" subcommands to \"git submodule\" learned --reference\n   option to use local clone with references.\n\n * \"git submodule update\" learned --rebase option to update checked\n   out submodules by rebasing the local changes.\n\n * \"gitweb\" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.\n\n(developers)\n\n * A major part of the \"git bisect\" wrapper has moved to C.\n\n * Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported.\n\nFixes since v1.6.3\n------------------\n\nAll of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this\nrelease, unless otherwise noted.\n\nHere are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to\nv1.6.3.X series.\n\n * \"git diff-tree -r -t\" used to omit new or removed directories from\n   the output.  df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed\n   directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked\n   to backport this fix.\n\n * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers\n   that chdir around.  It now internally records the repository location\n   as an absolute path when autodetected.\n\n * Removing a section with \"git config --remove-section\", when its\n   section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost\n   that variable definition.\n\n * \"git repack\" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true\n   parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit.\n   After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting\n   the repository.\n\n * \"git send-email\" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion.\n\n---\nexec >/var/tmp/1\necho O=$(git describe master)\nO=v1.6.4-rc2-31-g2ceb639\ngit shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint\n"},{"id":"118863","messageId":"4A6D08D3.50404@chaz6.com","threadId":"20235","inReplyTo":"7vws5vrh93.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc3","fromName":"Chris Hills","fromEmail":"chaz@chaz6.com","sentAt":"2009-07-27T01:54:27Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-27T01:54:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"chaz@chaz6.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 26/07/09 10:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n > A release candidate GIT 1.6.4.rc3 is available at the usual places\n > for testing:\n >\n >    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n >\n >    git-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n >    git-htmldocs-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n >    git-manpages-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nHi\n\nIt seems that running `make distclean` removes the configure script. Is \nthis expected behavior?\n\nRegards,\n\nChris\n"},{"id":"118864","messageId":"7vk51uom0e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"20235","inReplyTo":"4A6D08D3.50404@chaz6.com","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc3","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2009-07-27T03:14:25Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-27T03:14:25Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Chris Hills <chaz@chaz6.com> writes:\n\n> It seems that running `make distclean` removes the configure\n> script. Is this expected behavior?\n\nYes.\n\nThe users are not expected to run configure before building, and we do not\nship a configure script as part of the distribution.\n"},{"id":"118865","messageId":"20090727051311.GA17300@pengutronix.de","threadId":"20235","inReplyTo":"7vws5vrh93.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc3","fromName":"Uwe Kleine-König","fromEmail":"u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de","sentAt":"2009-07-27T05:13:11Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-27T05:13:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/354b5e3ceb2806a2f1e1e382ac29ddbdad18288654da62b61eb13583a857eee7?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hi Junio,\n\nOn Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 01:16:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> Updates since v1.6.3\n> --------------------\n> \n> [...]\n> \n> (usability, bells and whistles)\n> \n>  * \"git add --edit\" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what\n>    is added to the index.\n> \n>  * \"git am\" accepts StGIT series file as its input.\n> \n>  * \"git bisect skip\" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope\n>    to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is\n>    already known to be untestable.\n> \n>  * \"git cvsexportcommit\" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion\n> \n>  * \"git grep\" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the\n>    same context hunk marker \"git diff\" uses.\n> \n>  * https transport can optionally be told that the used client\n>    certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the\n>    password only once.\n> \n>  * \"git imap-send\" is IPv6 aware.\n> \n>  * \"git log --graph\" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines\n>    when able.\n> \n>  * \"git log --decorate\" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known\n>    refs/* prefix.\n> \n>  * \"git push $name\" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before\n>    using remote.$name.url.  In other words, the URL used for fetching\n>    and pushing can be different.\n> \n>  * \"git send-email\" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might\n>    have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).\n> \n>  * \"git send-email\" can fetch the sender address from the configuration\n>    variable \"sendmail.from\" (and \"sendmail.<identity>.from\").\n> \n>  * \"git show-branch\" can color its output.\n> \n>  * \"add\" and \"update\" subcommands to \"git submodule\" learned --reference\n>    option to use local clone with references.\n> \n>  * \"git submodule update\" learned --rebase option to update checked\n>    out submodules by rebasing the local changes.\n> \n>  * \"gitweb\" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.\n> \nI'm not really sure if it's worth to point out:\n\n * \"git rev-parse\" learned \"--stop-at-non-option\"\n\nBut on the other hand I sometimes want to find out the oldest release\nsupporting a certain feature.  Up to you to decide ...\n\n> ---\n> exec >/var/tmp/1\n> echo O=$(git describe master)\n> O=v1.6.4-rc2-31-g2ceb639\n> git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint\nIs it intended that this occurs in the mail?  (Oh, a possible symlink\nattack :-)\n\nBest regards\nUwe\n\n-- \nPengutronix e.K.                              | Uwe Kleine-König            |\nIndustrial Linux Solutions                    | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |\n"}]}