1GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * Comes with much improved gitk. 8 9 * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the 10 eye. Transfer commands show throughput data. 11 12 * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 13 14 * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 15 16 * git-rebase learned --whitespace option. 17 18 * git-remote knows --mirror mode. 19 20 * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook. 21 22 * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads. 23 24 * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 25 export-subst attribute. 26 27 * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to 28 show the various date fields in different formats. 29 30 * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a 31 variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects 32 (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates 33 too many loose objects. 34 35 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 36 git-clean to do any damage (lack of the configuration variable 37 used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer default). 38 39 * git-push has been rewritten in C. 40 41 * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen 42 if a push is run. 43 44 * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand. 45 46 * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD. 47 48 * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell. 49 50 * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose. 51 52 * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge. 53 54 * Various Perforce importer updates. 55 56 * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found 57 option. 58 59 * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn. 60 61 * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 62 63 * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 64 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one 65 commits are formatted. 66 67 * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned 68 set of exclude files. 69 70 * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a 71 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} 72 for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase 73 was started. 74 75 * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the 76 existing annotation message. 77 78 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch 79 to the CVS working directory. 80 81 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has 82 been optimized. 83 84 * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches, 85 has been greatly optimized. 86 87 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 88 89 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 90 91 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 92 brought from the msysgit effort. 93 94 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 95 96 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 97 98 99Fixes since v1.5.3 100------------------ 101 102All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 103this release, unless otherwise noted. 104 105 * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 106 and project names. 107 108-- 109exec >/var/tmp/1 110O=v1.5.3.6-706-gcb02958 111echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 112git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint