1GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.5 5-------------------- 6 7(subsystems) 8 9* Comes with updated gitk and git-gui. 10 11(portability) 12 13* git will build on AIX better than before now. 14 15* core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on 16 filesystems that are not case sensitive. 17 18* "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and 19 sets core.ignorecase accordingly. 20 21(documentation) 22 23* Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made 24 available to "git help" (aka "man git-<command>") as section 7 of the 25 manual pages. 26 27(performance) 28 29* "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a 30 repository with insane number of refs. 31 32* "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of 33 $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree 34 files unnecessarily. This has been optimized. 35 36* Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing 37 plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object. 38 39(usability, bells and whistles) 40 41* "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to 42 apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes. 43 44* "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information. 45 46* "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it 47 does its work on a detached HEAD. 48 49* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up 50 branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull" 51 and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen. 52 53* "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list 54 branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the 55 current branch. 56 57* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off. 58 59* "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing 60 somebody else's changes. 61 62* "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual 63 changes. 64 65* "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated. 66 67* "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary 68 changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only 69 for reviewing. 70 71* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now. 72 73* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it. 74 75* "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry, 76 instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how 77 "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works. 78 79* "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry 80 graph at the left margin of the output. 81 82* "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different 83 from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable. 84 85* "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository. 86 87* "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting. 88 89* "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule 90 summary". 91 92* "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship 93 by munging the commit log message. 94 95* new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized. 96 97* "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file. 98 99(internal) 100 101* "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about 102 detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire. 103 104 105Fixes since v1.5.5 106------------------ 107 108All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in 109this release, unless otherwise noted. 110 111 112-- 113exec >/var/tmp/1 114O=v1.5.6-rc1 115echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 116git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint