From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Noonan Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.5 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:30:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <7v8wfi1fya.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 11 18:38:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mx1RT-00024E-N4 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:38:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755438AbZJKQiX convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:38:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755326AbZJKQiX (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:38:23 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f179.google.com ([209.85.216.179]:41793 "EHLO mail-px0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755278AbZJKQiW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:38:22 -0400 Received: by pxi9 with SMTP id 9so8020334pxi.4 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.195.4 with SMTP id s4mr412013wff.264.1255278648051; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:30:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Steven Noonan = wrote: > Uh-oh. > > Alcarin:crisscross steven$ git remote update > Updating origin > fatal: 'git@github.com/tycho/crisscross.git' does not appear to be a > git repository > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > error: Could not fetch origin > > Alcarin:crisscross steven$ nano -w .git/config > Alcarin:crisscross steven$ git remote update > Updating origin Er, meant to say before this that I edited the URI to include the 'ssh://' and then it worked fine. > > The 'ssh://' part is omitted in numerous places on github.com. I > realize github.com isn't the final authority on the syntax of the URI= , > but was this an intentional change or a regression? > > - Steven > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Junio C Hamano w= rote: >> The latest feature release GIT 1.6.5 is available at the usual >> places: >> >> =A0http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ >> >> =A0git-1.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2} =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0(source tarball) >> =A0git-htmldocs-1.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2} =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (pref= ormatted docs) >> =A0git-manpages-1.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2} =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (pref= ormatted docs) >> >> The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: >> >> =A0RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5-1.fc9.$arch.rpm =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(RPM) >> >> This cycle took a bit longer than I hoped, but here it is. =A0We alr= eady >> have some new features cooking in 'next', and I expect we may be abl= e to >> have 1.6.6 by the end of the year. >> >> Enjoy. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> GIT v1.6.5 Release Notes >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D >> >> 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 r= emote >> 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. =A0Please refer to: >> >> =A0http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare >> =A0http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/foc= us=3D108007 >> >> for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the >> transition plan. >> >> Updates since v1.6.4 >> -------------------- >> >> (subsystems) >> >> =A0* various updates to gitk, git-svn and gitweb. >> >> (portability) >> >> =A0* more improvements on mingw port. >> >> =A0* mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS >> =A0 environment variable when the user does not have one. >> >> =A0* initial support to compile git on Windows with MSVC. >> >> (performance) >> >> =A0* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linu= s's >> =A0 block-sha1 implementation of the SHA-1 hash algorithm, which >> =A0 outperforms the default fallback implementation we borrowed from >> =A0 Mozilla. >> >> =A0* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository h= as >> =A0 been removed. >> >> =A0* "git clone" does not grab objects that it does not need (i.e. >> =A0 referenced only from refs outside refs/heads and refs/tags >> =A0 hierarchy) anymore. >> >> =A0* The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dra= gged >> =A0 in a large number of external libraries. =A0When using basic plu= mbing >> =A0 commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. =A0W= e now >> =A0 implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we >> =A0 used to. >> >> =A0* "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ = to >> =A0 newly created repository. =A0It used to give new mtime to copied= files, >> =A0 but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in = the >> =A0 cloned repository. =A0We now preserve mtime for these files to a= void >> =A0 this issue. >> >> (usability, bells and whistles) >> >> =A0* Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=3Dy= esterday, >> =A0 master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input prop= erly. >> >> =A0* A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiat= ed >> =A0 people when issuing error messages. =A0An infrastructure to allo= w >> =A0 users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messag= es >> =A0 can be silenced now. >> >> =A0* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replaceme= nt >> =A0 of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can = be >> =A0 transferred across repositories. >> >> =A0* "git am" learned to optionally ignore whitespace differences. >> >> =A0* "git am" handles input e-mail files that has CRLF line endings = sensibly. >> >> =A0* "git am" learned "--scissors" option to allow you to discard ea= rly part >> =A0 of an incoming e-mail. >> >> =A0* "git archive -o output.zip" works without being told what forma= t to >> =A0 use with an explicit "--format=3Dzip".option. >> >> =A0* "git checkout", "git reset" and "git stash" learned to pick and >> =A0 choose to use selected changes you made, similar to "git add -p"= =2E >> >> =A0* "git clone" learned a "-b" option to pick a HEAD to check out >> =A0 different from the remote's default branch. >> >> =A0* "git clone" learned --recursive option. >> >> =A0* "git clone" from a local repository on a different filesystem u= sed to >> =A0 copy individual object files without preserving the old timestam= p, giving >> =A0 them extra lifetime in the new repository until they gc'ed. >> >> =A0* "git commit --dry-run $args" is a new recommended way to ask "w= hat would >> =A0 happen if I try to commit with these arguments." >> >> =A0* "git commit --dry-run" and "git status" shows conflicted paths = in a >> =A0 separate section to make them easier to spot during a merge. >> >> =A0* "git cvsimport" now supports password-protected pserver access = even >> =A0 when the password is not taken from ~/.cvspass file. >> >> =A0* "git fast-export" learned --no-data option that can be useful w= hen >> =A0 reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of >> =A0 blobs. >> >> =A0* "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area. >> >> =A0* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given a= n >> =A0 extra argument (i.e. "git init this"). >> >> =A0* "git instaweb" optionally can use mongoose as the web server. >> >> =A0* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=3Df= ull to >> =A0 give the reference name in full. >> >> =A0* "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detec= ted >> =A0 that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has loca= l >> =A0 uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it >> =A0 clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm. >> >> =A0* "git push" can be told to be --quiet. >> >> =A0* "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a= URL >> =A0 that is derived from the URL used for fetching. >> >> =A0* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally mo= dified >> =A0 paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_bra= nch". >> >> =A0* "git submodule" learned to give submodule name to scripts run w= ith >> =A0 "foreach" subcommand. >> >> =A0* various subcommands to "git submodule" learned --recursive opti= on. >> >> =A0* "git submodule summary" learned --files option to compare the w= ork >> =A0 tree vs the commit bound at submodule path, instead of comparing >> =A0 the index. >> >> =A0* "git upload-pack", which is the server side support for "git cl= one" and >> =A0 "git fetch", can call a new post-upload-pack hook for statistics= purposes. >> >> (developers) >> >> =A0* With GIT_TEST_OPTS=3D"--root=3D/p/a/t/h", tests can be run outs= ide the >> =A0 source directory; using tmpfs may give faster turnaround. >> >> =A0* With NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER set, DESTDIR=3D is now honoured, so you = can >> =A0 build for one location, and install into another location to tar= it >> =A0 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. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >