-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.5.6-1, has been uploaded, leaving 1.5.5.1-1 as the previous version.
NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git-1.5.6/, 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhbpYUACgkQ84KuGfSFAYACjgCffkEUheBe4jNLkOJlXcU/JmHD dTUAnjmItTY2f0ZoJxJYezATxXsLRgMz =wTgT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.5.5 -------------------- (subsystems) * Comes with updated gitk and git-gui. (portability) * git will build on AIX better than before now. * core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive. * "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and sets core.ignorecase accordingly. * cpio is no longer used; neither "curl" binary (libcurl is still used). (documentation) * Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became "gittutorial.html"). (performance) * "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a repository with insane number of refs. * "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree files unnecessarily. This has been optimized. * Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object. (usability, bells and whistles) * "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes. * "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information. * "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it does its work on a detached HEAD. * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull" and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen. * "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the current branch. * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off. * "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing somebody else's changes. * "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual changes. * "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated. * "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only for reviewing. * "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now. * "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it. * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry, instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works. * "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry graph at the left margin of the output. * "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable. * "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository. * "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting. * "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule summary". * "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship by munging the commit log message. * new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized. * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file. (internal) * "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire. Fixes since v1.5.5 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. And there are too numerous small fixes to otherwise note here ;-) GIT v1.5.5.4 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.5.4 -------------------- * "git name-rev --all" used to segfault. GIT v1.5.5.3 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.5.2 -------------------- * "git send-email --compose" did not notice that non-ascii contents needed some MIME magic. * "git fast-export" did not export octopus merges correctly. Also comes with various documentation updates. GIT v1.5.5.2 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.5.1 -------------------- * "git repack -n" was mistakenly made no-op earlier. * "git imap-send" wanted to always have imap.host even when use of imap.tunnel made it unnecessary. * reflog syntax that uses time e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED] seconds ago}:path" did not stop parsing at the closing "}". * "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name ^master^2" printed solitary "^", but it should print nothing. * "git commit" did not detect when it failed to write tree objects. * "git fetch" sometimes transferred too many objects unnecessarily. * a path specification "a/b" in .gitattributes file should not match "sub/a/b". * various gitweb fixes. Also comes with various documentation updates.
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