On Wed December 23, version 1.6.6 of git was released. This version is currently available in my repository for both Jaunty and Karmic.
To add my repository follow the instructions on my git page
I’ll have a separate article about the upcoming git version 1.7 which is scheduled to be released next. It holds important information so read the article.
Git Release notes:
Git v1.6.6 Release Notes ======================== Notes on behaviour change ------------------------- * In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and checks packfiles, and because of this it will take much longer to complete than before. If you prefer a quicker check only on loose objects (the old default), you can say "git fsck --no-full". This has been supported by 1.5.4 and newer versions of git, so it is safe to write it in your script even if you use slightly older git on some of your machines. Updates since v1.6.5 -------------------- (subsystems) * various gitk updates including use of themed widgets under Tk 8.5, Japanese translation, a fix to a bug when running "gui blame" from a subdirectory, etc. * various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states fixes, Tk bug workaround after quitting, improved heuristics to trigger gc, etc. * various git-svn updates. * "git fetch" over http learned a new mode that is different from the traditional "dumb commit walker". (portability) * imap-send can be built on mingw port. (performance) * "git diff -B" has smaller memory footprint. (usability, bells and whistles) * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects global option given to the "git" program. * In configuration files, a few variables that name paths can begin with ~/ and ~username/ and they are expanded as expected. * "git subcmd -h" now shows short usage help for many more subcommands. * "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit. * "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch. * "git commit -c/-C/--amend" can be told with a new "--reset-author" option to ignore authorship information in the commit it is taking the message from. * "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option. * "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs instead of differences between the commit object names. * "git diff" learned to honor diff.color.func configuration to paint function name hint printed on the hunk header "@@ -j,k +l,m @@" line in the specified color. * "git fetch" learned --all and --multiple options, to run fetch from many repositories, and --prune option to remove remote tracking branches that went stale. These make "git remote update" and "git remote prune" less necessary (there is no plan to remove "remote update" nor "remote prune", though). * "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full". * "git grep" can use -F (fixed strings) and -i (ignore case) together. * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of compressed tarballs. * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2. * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well. * "git log" and "git rev-list" learned to take revs and pathspecs from the standard input with the new "--stdin" option. * "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned: . to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier. . to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier. * "git notes" command to annotate existing commits. * "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail if the merge does not result in a fast-forward. * "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge. * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the contents. * "git send-email" can be told with "--envelope-sender=auto" to use the same address as "From:" address as the envelope sender address. * "git send-email" will issue a warning when it defaults to the --chain-reply-to behaviour without being told by the user and instructs to prepare for the change of the default in 1.7.0 release. * In "git submodule add <repository> <path>", <path> is now optional and inferred from <repository> the same way "git clone <repository>" does. * "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets. * "git svn" learned to recreate empty directories tracked only by SVN. * "gitweb" can optionally render its "blame" output incrementally (this requires JavaScript on the client side). * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the author. Fixes since v1.6.5 ------------------ All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted.
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