1GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Removal 5------- 6 7 * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". 8 9 10Deprecation notices 11------------------- 12 13 * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but 14 it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands 15 (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install 16 only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This 17 implies: 18 19 - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 20 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 21 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 22 dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead. 23 24 - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the 25 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 26 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 27 28 - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 29 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 30 31 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 32 to prepare for this. 33 34 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 35 post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 36 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 37 in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5. 38 39 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 40 option, and will be removed in the future. 41 42 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 43 and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future. 44 45 46Updates since v1.5.3 47-------------------- 48 49 * Comes with much improved gitk. 50 51 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.0 with i18n. 52 53 * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. 54 Transfer commands show throughput data. 55 56 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do 57 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. 58 59 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been 60 optimized. 61 62 * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has 63 been greatly optimized. 64 65 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking 66 pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were 67 found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random. 68 69 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 70 71 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 72 73 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 74 75 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 76 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 77 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 78 runs it for you. 79 80 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 81 82 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 83 threads. 84 85 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 86 export-subst attribute. 87 88 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 89 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 90 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 91 92 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 93 various date fields in different formats. 94 95 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 96 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 97 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 98 objects. 99 100 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 101 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 102 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 103 files", but we now use the safer default). 104 105 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 106 107 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 108 push is run. 109 110 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 111 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 112 113 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 114 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 115 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 116 117 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 118 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 119 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 120 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 121 back-up repository. 122 123 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 124 125 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 126 127 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". 128 129 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 130 131 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 132 merge". 133 134 * Various Perforce importer updates. 135 136 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 137 implementations. 138 139 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 140 141 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 142 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 143 are formatted. 144 145 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 146 exclude files. 147 148 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 149 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 150 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 151 started. 152 153 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 154 annotation message. 155 156 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 157 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 158 paragraphs. 159 160 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 161 CVS working directory. 162 163 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 164 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 165 166 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 167 168 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 169 170 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 171 172 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 173 .git/config. 174 175 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 176 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 177 message. 178 179 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths which makes 180 copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. 181 182 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 183 information in the reflog. 184 185 * "git branch" learned --contains option, to show only branches that 186 can reach a given commit. 187 188 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 189 190 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 191 ":ref" refspec. 192 193 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 194 195 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 196 brought from the msysgit effort. 197 198 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 199 200 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 201 202 203Fixes since v1.5.3 204------------------ 205 206All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 207this release, unless otherwise noted. 208 209These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 210series. 211 212 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 213 and project names. 214 215-- 216exec >/var/tmp/1 217O=v1.5.3.7-966-g6bda21b 218echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 219git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint