1GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Removal 5------- 6 7 * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there 8 in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported. 9 10 11Deprecation notices 12------------------- 13 14 * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but 15 it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands 16 (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install 17 only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This 18 implies: 19 20 - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 21 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 22 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 23 dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead. 24 25 - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the 26 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 27 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 28 29 - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 30 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 31 32 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 33 to prepare for this. 34 35 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 36 post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 37 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 38 in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5. 39 40 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 41 option, and will be removed in the future. 42 43 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 44 and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future. 45 46 * From v1.5.5, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default 47 to true, which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage). 48 The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able 49 to directly use a repository packed using this setting. 50 51 * From v1.5.5, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2, 52 which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to 53 data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1 54 of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly 55 access corresponding pack files. 56 57 58Updates since v1.5.3 59-------------------- 60 61 * Comes with much improved gitk. 62 63 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n. 64 65 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in 66 preparation for its i18n. 67 68 * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. 69 Transfer commands show throughput data. 70 71 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do 72 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. 73 74 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been 75 optimized. 76 77 * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has 78 been greatly optimized. 79 80 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking 81 pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were 82 found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random. 83 84 * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to 85 mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). 86 This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto". 87 88 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using 89 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration 90 variable. 91 92 * Various Perforce importer updates. 93 94 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 95 96 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use 97 ":/string" syntax to name a commit. 98 99 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 100 101 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 102 103 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 104 105 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 106 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 107 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 108 runs it for you. 109 110 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 111 112 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 113 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 114 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 115 started. 116 117 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. 118 119 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 120 121 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 122 threads. 123 124 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 125 export-subst attribute. 126 127 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 128 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 129 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 130 131 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 132 various date fields in different formats. 133 134 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 135 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 136 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 137 objects. 138 139 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 140 141 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 142 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 143 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 144 files", but we now use the safer default). 145 146 * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and 147 fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable 148 and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. 149 150 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 151 push is run. 152 153 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 154 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 155 156 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 157 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 158 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 159 160 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 161 ":ref" refspec. 162 163 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 164 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 165 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 166 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 167 back-up repository. 168 169 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 170 171 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". 172 173 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive 174 and post-update hooks. 175 176 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 177 178 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 179 merge". 180 181 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched 182 into your current branch. 183 184 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import 185 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. 186 187 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. 188 189 * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch 190 subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. 191 192 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. 193 194 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent 195 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual 196 safety valve. 197 198 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree 199 from its first parent. 200 201 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. 202 203 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was 204 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" 205 (without extra args) for that. 206 207 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from 208 getting pruned. 209 210 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are 211 descendants of a given commit. 212 213 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 214 implementations. 215 216 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 217 218 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". 219 220 * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed 221 environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git 222 bisect visualize tig"). 223 224 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 225 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 226 are formatted. 227 228 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 229 exclude files. 230 231 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 232 annotation message. 233 234 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 235 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 236 paragraphs. 237 238 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 239 CVS working directory. 240 241 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 242 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 243 244 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 245 information in the reflog. 246 247 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 248 249 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 250 251 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 252 253 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 254 .git/config. 255 256 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 257 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 258 message. 259 260 * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings 261 between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact 262 for this information has been introduced to correct this. 263 264 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which 265 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The 266 traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of 267 the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths 268 configuration variable to true. 269 270 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; 271 this has been corrected. 272 273 * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is 274 a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. 275 276 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as 277 authors' names. 278 279 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. 280 281 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 282 283 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 284 brought from the msysgit effort. 285 286 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 287 288 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 289 290 291Fixes since v1.5.3 292------------------ 293 294All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 295this release, unless otherwise noted. 296 297These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 298series. 299 300 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 301 and project names. 302 303 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define 304 REG_NOMATCH to an even number. 305 306-- 307exec >/var/tmp/1 308O=v1.5.4-rc0 309echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 310git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint