Documentation / RelNotes-1.5.6.txton commit enable whitespace checking of test scripts (9197240)
   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