Version Control Blog

Yesterday Git 1.6.0 was released. Please read full announcement and changelog.

Git 1.5.3 was released by Junio Hamano on Sep 3rd. Read more at:

• few selected new features by Garry Dolley;
• more on git stash feature, by Jonathan Tron;
• original announcement by Junio Hamano, with detailed changelog;

git stash is similar to shelving feature of Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

13 Feb 2007: GIT 1.5.0 has been released. This major release includes lots of changes and improvements in such areas like:

• index manipulation;
• repository layout and objects transfer;
• bare repositories handling;
• reflog (history from the view point of the local repository);
• crufts removal;
• detached HEAD;
• packed refs;
• internationalization;
• shallow clones.

(via LWN.net)

23 Nov 2007: Bazaar 0.14 has been released. Changes include tunneling to the SmartServer via HTTP, per-configuration-key policy settings, short svn-style status reports, and other improvements. Bazzar homepage is at http://bazaar-vcs.org/.

Subversion 1.4.3 was released on 25th January 2007. A handful of bugfixes are included in this release. Read more in original announcement and detailed list of changes. Subversion homepage is at http://subversion.tigris.org/.

Svk 2.0 was released on 3 Jan 2007. Svk is the distributed version control system built on top of Subversion, with many advanced features. Svk homepage is at http://svk.bestpractical.com/. Major changes since last major release include:

• Interactive commits: svk will walk you through each change in each file, and let you decide exactly which ones you want to commit.
• Views support appeared for beta testing: You can set up a “view” that is a map of several parts of a repository (different paths at different revisions). You can then check the “view” out and work with it as if it’s just an ordinary svk checkout path.
• Better copy and rename support across merge.
• Speed up repository synchronisation significantly.

Lots of smaller changes and bugfixes are also present. Read the original announcement at Best Practical: “SVK 2.0 is better, faster and just as free”.

07 Jan 2007: GIT 1.4.4.4: a handful bugfixes since 1.4.4.3.

3 Jan 2007: “The scripts have changed considerably since the initial announcement two months ago. The current scripts are much more reliable, and follow more of the quilt/mq semantics.” (via LWN.net)

Dec 17 2006: Mercurial 0.9.3 was released. Bug fixes, documentation fixes, fixes in mq and gpg extensions. Read more at Matt Mackall: “Mercurial 0.9.3 released!”

20 Dec 2006: GIT 1.4.4.3: This release contains merge-recursive corner case fix; it also fixes git-cvsserver (when used with newer Perl) and Mac OS build (when you use config.mak), among other things. Junio also added:

To let people who only follow the ‘maint’ releases know what’s happening in the larger picture… We have just started talking about the next feature release v1.5.0 on the ‘master’ branch side. If we are lucky we could do a -rc1 around Christmas, emperor’s birthday in Japan, or perhaps emperor’s birthday in the Penguin land, but in any case the real release is not expected to happen by mid January. The new release will have many end-user level changes since the last feature release v1.4.4, both at the UI level and at the documentation level, based on previous discussions on the list. It is strongly encouraged and very much appreciated to review and to fill gaps you would find in today’s ‘master’ and what’s cooking in ‘next’, if you were involved in the discussions and/or if you are interested in the theme of v1.5.0: “usability and teachability”.