Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.5

> The latest feature release GIT 1.6.5 is available at the usual
> places:
>
>  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
>
>  git-1.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2}                        (source tarball)
>  git-htmldocs-1.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2}               (preformatted docs)
>  git-manpages-1.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2}               (preformatted docs)
>
> The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
>
>  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5-1.fc9.$arch.rpm        (RPM)
>
> This cycle took a bit longer than I hoped, but here it is.  We already
> have some new features cooking in 'next', and I expect we may be able to
> have 1.6.6 by the end of the year.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes
> ========================
>
> In git 1.7.0, which was planned to be the release after 1.6.5, "git
> push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by
> default.
>
> You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
> configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving
> repository.
>
> Also, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed in a remote
> repository $there, when $killed branch is the current branch pointed at by
> its HEAD, will be refused by default.
>
> You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the
> configuration variable receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving
> repository.
>
> To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
> push running this release will issue a big warning when the
> configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
>
>  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
>
> for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
> transition plan.
>
> Updates since v1.6.4
> --------------------
>
> (subsystems)
>
>  * various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb.
>
> (portability)
>
>  * 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.
>
>  * initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC.
>
> (performance)
>
>  * On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
>   block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which
>   outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from
>   Mozilla.
>
>  * Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
>   been removed.
>
>  * "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e.
>   referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags
>   hierarchy) anymore.
>
>  * 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.
>
>  * "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences.
>
>  * "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings sensibly.
>
>  * "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard early part
>   of an incoming e-mail.
>
>  * "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what format to
>   use with an explicit "--format=zip".option.
>
>  * "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and
>   choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p".
>
>  * "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out
>   different from the remote's default branch.
>
>  * "git clone" learned --recursive option.
>
>  * "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem used to
>   copy individual object files without preserving the old timestamp, giving
>   them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed.
>
>  * "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "what would
>   happen if I try to commit with these arguments."
>
>  * "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths in a
>   separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge.
>
>  * "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access even
>   when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file.
>
>  * "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful when
>   reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
>   blobs.
>
>  * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area.
>
>  * "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
>   extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
>
>  * "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server.
>
>  * "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
>   give the reference name in full.
>
>  * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected
>   that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local
>   uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it
>   clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm.
>
>  * "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
>
>  * "git push" pays attention to url.$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".
>
>  * "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run with
>   "foreach" subcommand.
>
>  * various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive option.
>
>  * "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the work
>   tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing
>   the index.
>
>  * "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git clone" and
>   "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics purposes.
>
> (developers)
>
>  * With GIT_TEST_OPTS="--root=/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outside the
>   source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround.
>
>  * With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR= is now honoured, so you can
>   build for one location, and install into another location to tar it
>   up.
>
> Fixes since v1.6.4
> ------------------
>
> All of the fixes in v1.6.4.X maintenance series are included in this
> release, unless otherwise noted.
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