X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:43:00 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.5.2.2-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060902060608010806030705" Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com --------------060902060608010806030705 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.5.2.2-1, has been uploaded, replacing 1.5.1.3-1 as the current version. NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git-1.5.2.2/, along with the attached upstream release notes. When compiled out of the box, the upstream git maintainers cater to older cygwin releases, and intentionally disable certain features that have been reported on their mailing list, even though they work with the latest cygwin. Therefore, this build turns those features back on. However, it means that this version does assume that you are not using FAT or FAT32 to hold your repositories, since they do not store file permissions very accurately. DESCRIPTION: ============ Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or BitKeeper in the proprietary world). Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'git' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin git maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGfaH084KuGfSFAYARAgyfAKCR5Kwh0x9nQJtWCKx4xOT9G3lSfwCghIew TKhMgrdI3YKt2PwNUXsmDdc= =gsuX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------060902060608010806030705 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" GIT v1.5.2.2 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.2.1 -------------------- * Usability fix - git-gui is shipped with its updated blame interface. It is rumored that the older one was not just unusable but was active health hazard, but this one is actually pretty. Please see for yourself. * Bugfixes - "git checkout fubar" was utterly confused when there is a branch fubar and a tag fubar at the same time. It correctly checks out the branch fubar now. - "git clone /path/foo" to clone a local /path/foo.git repository left an incorrect configuration. - "git send-email" correctly unquotes RFC 2047 quoted names in the patch-email before using their values. - We did not accept number of seconds since epoch older than year 2000 as a valid timestamp. We now interpret positive integers more than 8 digits as such, which allows us to express timestamps more recent than March 1973. - git-cvsimport did not work when you have GIT_DIR to point your repository at a nonstandard location. - Some systems (notably, Solaris) lack hstrerror() to make h_errno human readable; prepare a replacement implementation. - .gitignore file listed git-core.spec but what we generate is git.spec, and nobody noticed for a long time. - "git-merge-recursive" does not try to run file level merge on binary files. - "git-branch --track" did not create tracking configuration correctly when the branch name had slash in it. - The email address of the user specified with user.email configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable. - The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs. - "git log -z" without any other request to generate diff still invoked the diff machinery, wasting cycles. * Documentation - Many updates to fix stale or missing documentation. - Although our documentation was primarily meant to be formatted with AsciiDoc7, formatting with AsciiDoc8 is supported better. GIT v1.5.2.1 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.2 ------------------ * Bugfixes - Temporary files that are used when invoking external diff programs did not tolerate a long TMPDIR. - git-daemon did not notice when it could not write into its pid file. - git-status did not honor core.excludesFile configuration like git-add did. - git-annotate did not work from a subdirectory while git-blame did. - git-cvsserver should have disabled access to a repository with "gitcvs.pserver.enabled = false" set even when "gitcvs.enabled = true" was set at the same time. It didn't. - git-cvsimport did not work correctly in a repository with its branch heads were packed with pack-refs. - ident unexpansion to squash "$Id: xxx $" that is in the repository copy removed incorrect number of bytes. - git-svn misbehaved when the subversion repository did not provide MD5 checksums for files. - git rebase (and git am) misbehaved on commits that have '\n' (literally backslash and en, not a linefeed) in the title. - code to decode base85 used in binary patches had one error return codepath wrong. - RFC2047 Q encoding output by git-format-patch used '_' for a space, which is not understood by some programs. It uses =20 which is safer. - git-fastimport --import-marks was broken; fixed. - A lot of documentation updates, clarifications and fixes. GIT v1.5.2 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.5.1 -------------------- * Plumbing level superproject support. You can include a subdirectory that has an independent git repository in your index and tree objects of your project ("superproject"). This plumbing (i.e. "core") level superproject support explicitly excludes recursive behaviour. The "subproject" entries in the index and trees of a superproject are incompatible with older versions of git. Experimenting with the plumbing level support is encouraged, but be warned that unless everybody in your project updates to this release or later, using this feature would make your project inaccessible by people with older versions of git. * Plumbing level gitattributes support. The gitattributes mechanism allows you to add 'attributes' to paths in your project, and affect the way certain git operations work. Currently you can influence if a path is considered a binary or text (the former would be treated by 'git diff' not to produce textual output; the latter can go through the line endings conversion process in repositories with core.autocrlf set), expand and unexpand '$Id$' keyword with blob object name, specify a custom 3-way merge driver, and specify a custom diff driver. You can also apply arbitrary filter to contents on check-in/check-out codepath but this feature is an extremely sharp-edged razor and needs to be handled with caution (do not use it unless you understand the earlier mailing list discussion on keyword expansion). These conversions apply when checking files in or out, and exporting via git-archive. * The packfile format now optionally suports 64-bit index. This release supports the "version 2" format of the .idx file. This is automatically enabled when a huge packfile needs more than 32-bit to express offsets of objects in the pack. * Comes with an updated git-gui 0.7.1 * Updated gitweb: - can show combined diff for merges; - uses font size of user's preference, not hardcoded in pixels; - can now 'grep'; * New commands and options. - "git bisect start" can optionally take a single bad commit and zero or more good commits on the command line. - "git shortlog" can optionally be told to wrap its output. - "subtree" merge strategy allows another project to be merged in as your subdirectory. - "git format-patch" learned a new --subject-prefix= option, to override the built-in "[PATCH]". - "git add -u" is a quick way to do the first stage of "git commit -a" (i.e. update the index to match the working tree); it obviously does not make a commit. - "git clean" honors a new configuration, "clean.requireforce". When set to true, this makes "git clean" a no-op, preventing you from losing files by typing "git clean" when you meant to say "make clean". You can still say "git clean -f" to override this. - "git log" family of commands learned --date={local,relative,default} option. --date=relative is synonym to the --relative-date. --date=local gives the timestamp in local timezone. * Updated behavior of existing commands. - When $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL or $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL is not set but $EMAIL is set, the latter is used as a substitute. - "git diff --stat" shows size of preimage and postimage blobs for binary contents. Earlier it only said "Bin". - "git lost-found" shows stuff that are unreachable except from reflogs. - "git checkout branch^0" now detaches HEAD at the tip commit on the named branch, instead of just switching to the branch (use "git checkout branch" to switch to the branch, as before). - "git bisect next" can be used after giving only a bad commit without giving a good one (this starts bisection half-way to the root commit). We used to refuse to operate without a good and a bad commit. - "git push", when pushing into more than one repository, does not stop at the first error. - "git archive" does not insist you to give --format parameter anymore; it defaults to "tar". - "git cvsserver" can use backends other than sqlite. - "gitview" (in contrib/ section) learned to better support "git-annotate". - "git diff $commit1:$path2 $commit2:$path2" can now report mode changes between the two blobs. - Local "git fetch" from a repository whose object store is one of the alternates (e.g. fetching from the origin in a repository created with "git clone -l -s") avoids downloading objects unnecessarily. - "git blame" uses .mailmap to canonicalize the author name just like "git shortlog" does. - "git pack-objects" pays attention to pack.depth configuration variable. - "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" does not use .msg file in the working tree to prepare commit message; instead it uses $GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG as other commands do. * Builds - git-p4import has never been installed; now there is an installation option to do so. - gitk and git-gui can be configured out. - Generated documentation pages automatically get version information from GIT_VERSION. - Parallel build with "make -j" descending into subdirectory was fixed. * Performance Tweaks - Optimized "git-rev-list --bisect" (hence "git-bisect"). - Optimized "git-add $path" in a large directory, most of whose contents are ignored. - Optimized "git-diff-tree" for reduced memory footprint. - The recursive merge strategy updated a worktree file that was changed identically in two branches, when one of them renamed it. We do not do that when there is no rename, so match that behaviour. This avoids excessive rebuilds. - The default pack depth has been increased to 50, as the recent addition of delta_base_cache makes deeper delta chains much less expensive to access. Depending on the project, it was reported that this reduces the resulting pack file by 10% or so. Fixes since v1.5.1 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.5.1 maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. * Bugfixes - Switching branches with "git checkout" refused to work when a path changes from a file to a directory between the current branch and the new branch, in order not to lose possible local changes in the directory that is being turned into a file with the switch. We now allow such a branch switch after making sure that there is no locally modified file nor un-ignored file in the directory. This has not been backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an intrusive change. - Merging branches that have a file in one and a directory in another at the same path used to get quite confused. We handle such a case a bit more carefully, even though that is still left as a conflict for the user to sort out. This will not be backported to 1.5.1.x series, as it is rather an intrusive change. - git-fetch had trouble with a remote with insanely large number of refs. - "git clean -d -X" now does not remove non-excluded directories. - rebasing (without -m) a series that changes a symlink to a directory in the middle of a path confused git-apply greatly and refused to operate. GIT v1.5.1.6 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.1.4 -------------------- * Bugfixes - git-send-email did not understand aliases file for mutt, which allows leading whitespaces. - git-format-patch emitted Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding headers for non ASCII contents, but failed to add MIME-Version. - git-name-rev had a buffer overrun with a deep history. - contributed script import-tars did not get the directory in tar archives interpreted correctly. - git-svn was reported to segfault for many people on list and #git; hopefully this has been fixed. - git-svn also had a bug to crash svnserve by sending a bad sequence of requests. - "git-svn clone" does not try to minimize the URL (i.e. connect to higher level hierarchy) by default, as this can prevent clone to fail if only part of the repository (e.g. 'trunk') is open to public. - "git checkout branch^0" did not detach the head when you are already on 'branch'; backported the fix from the 'master'. - "git-config section.var" did not correctly work when existing configuration file had both [section] and [section "name"] next to each other. - "git clone ../other-directory" was fooled if the current directory $PWD points at is a symbolic link. - (build) tree_entry_extract() function was both static inline and extern, which caused trouble compiling with Forte12 compilers on Sun. - Many many documentation fixes and updates. GIT v1.5.1.5 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.1.4 -------------------- * Bugfixes - git-send-email did not understand aliases file for mutt, which allows leading whitespaces. - git-format-patch emitted Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding headers for non ASCII contents, but failed to add MIME-Version. - git-name-rev had a buffer overrun with a deep history. - contributed script import-tars did not get the directory in tar archives interpreted correctly. - git-svn was reported to segfault for many people on list and #git; hopefully this has been fixed. - "git-svn clone" does not try to minimize the URL (i.e. connect to higher level hierarchy) by default, as this can prevent clone to fail if only part of the repository (e.g. 'trunk') is open to public. - "git checkout branch^0" did not detach the head when you are already on 'branch'; backported the fix from the 'master'. - "git-config section.var" did not correctly work when existing configuration file had both [section] and [section "name"] next to each other. - "git clone ../other-directory" was fooled if the current directory $PWD points at is a symbolic link. - (build) tree_entry_extract() function was both static inline and extern, which caused trouble compiling with Forte12 compilers on Sun. - Many many documentation fixes and updates. GIT v1.5.1.4 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.1.3 -------------------- * Bugfixes - "git-http-fetch" did not work around a bug in libcurl earlier than 7.16 (curl_multi_remove_handle() was broken). - "git cvsserver" handles a file that was once removed and then added again correctly. - import-tars script (in contrib/) handles GNU tar archives that contain pathnames longer than 100 bytes (long-link extension) correctly. - xdelta test program did not build correctly. - gitweb sometimes tried incorrectly to apply function to decode utf8 twice, resulting in corrupt output. - "git blame -C" mishandled text at the end of a group of lines. - "git log/rev-list --boundary" did not produce output correctly without --left-right option. - Many documentation updates. --------------060902060608010806030705 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --------------060902060608010806030705--