1GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.2 5-------------------- 6 7* An initial interation of Porcelain level superproject support 8 started to take shape. 9 10* Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with 11 repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. 12 13* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for 14 fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/ now. 15 16* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0. 17 18* Comes with updated gitk. 19 20* New commands and options. 21 22 - "git log" learned a new option '--follow', to follow 23 renaming history of a single file. 24 25 - "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist. 26 27 - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, 28 --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. 29 30 - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from 31 the superproject that contain them. 32 33 - In addition to core.compression configuration option, 34 core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can 35 independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose 36 and packed objects. 37 38 - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the 39 tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l". 40 41 - "git-rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and 42 --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used 43 for --grep fitering. 44 45 - "git-describe --contains" is a handier way to call more 46 obscure command "git-name-rev --tags". 47 48 - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles 49 to optimize the repository harder. 50 51 - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid 52 exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size". 53 54 - "git fsck" gained --verbose option. This is really really 55 verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is 56 corrupt in your repository. 57 58 - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This 59 may be useful for MH users. 60 61 - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. 62 63 - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. 64 65 - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that changes 66 whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option. 67 68 - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when 69 sending out more than one patches. 70 71 - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to 72 help scripts. 73 74* Updated behavior of existing commands. 75 76 - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking 77 notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc. 78 79 - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before. The 80 default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI 81 allows to choose normal diff with any parent. 82 83 - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at 84 $path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part 85 in the filename, which we used to discard. 86 87 - "git cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any 88 interesting information we can record in an annotated tag, 89 and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not 90 properly formed anyway. 91 92 - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from 93 the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking 94 branches if you have any. 95 96 - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the 97 color.diff configuration. 98 99 - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at 100 the end of the file. 101 102 - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with -v shows connection 103 status, and the IP address of the other end, to help 104 diagnosing problems. 105 106 - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when 107 set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format 108 that mimicks the format used by objects stored in packs. It 109 turns out that this was not so useful. Although we will 110 continue to read objects written in that format, we do not 111 honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in 112 the legacy/traditional format. 113 114 - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be 115 spelled as "-C -C" for brevity. 116 117 - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir 118 formatted mailboxes. 119 120 - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" 121 request. 122 123 - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in 124 .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that 125 come from paths with delta attribute set to false. 126 127 - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare 128 repository. 129 130 - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. 131 132 - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface. 133 134 - "git log" and friends did not handle a commit log message 135 that is larger than 16kB; they do now. 136 137 - "--pretty=oneline" output format for "git log" and friends 138 deals with "malformed" commit log messages that have more 139 than one lines in the first paragraph better. We used to 140 show the first line, cutting the title at mid-sentence; we 141 concatenate them into a single line and treat the result as 142 "oneline". 143 144* Builds 145 146 - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function 147 without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") 148 have been eradicated. 149 150* Performance Tweaks 151 152 - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching 153 small enough delta results it creates while looking for the 154 best delta candidates. 155 156 - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved 157 to work better on big files. 158 159 - when there are more than one pack files in the repository, 160 the runtime used to try finding an object always from the 161 newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found 162 the object requested the last time, which exploits the 163 locality of references. 164 165 - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost 166 by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them. 167 168 169Fixes since v1.5.2 170------------------ 171 172All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in 173this release, unless otherwise noted. 174 175* Bugfixes 176 177 - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older 178 Encode.pm Perl module. 179 180-- 181exec >/var/tmp/1 182O=v1.5.2.2-603-g7c85173 183echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 184git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint