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 * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus" 11 helper script lost all its users and has been removed. 12 13 14Deprecation notices 15------------------- 16 17 * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0) 18 will by default install dashed form of commands (e.g. "git-commit") 19 outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install only selected 20 commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This implies: 21 22 - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 23 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 24 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 25 dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead. 26 27 - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the 28 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 29 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 30 31 - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 32 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 33 34 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 35 to prepare for this. 36 37 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 38 the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 39 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 40 in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0. 41 42 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 43 option, and will be removed in the future. 44 45 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 46 and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in 47 the future. 48 49 * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default 50 to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage). 51 The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able 52 to directly use a repository packed using this setting. 53 54 * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2, 55 which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to 56 data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1 57 of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly 58 access corresponding pack files. 59 60 61Updates since v1.5.3 62-------------------- 63 64 * Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n. 65 66 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n. 67 68 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in 69 preparation for its i18n. 70 71 * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. 72 Transfer commands show throughput data. 73 74 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do 75 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. 76 77 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been 78 optimized. 79 80 * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has 81 been greatly optimized. 82 83 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking 84 pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were 85 found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random. 86 87 * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to 88 mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). 89 This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto". 90 91 * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which 92 is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF. 93 94 * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than 95 "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/". 96 97 * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny 98 characters properly. 99 100 * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved 101 when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually 102 produce diff. 103 104 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using 105 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration 106 variable. 107 108 * Various Perforce importer updates. 109 110 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 111 112 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use 113 ":/string" syntax to name a commit. 114 115 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 116 117 * "git reset --hard" does not make any sense in a bare 118 repository, but did not error out; fixed. 119 120 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 121 122 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 123 124 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 125 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 126 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 127 runs it for you. 128 129 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 130 131 * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed. 132 133 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 134 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 135 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 136 started. 137 138 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. 139 140 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 141 142 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 143 threads. 144 145 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 146 export-subst attribute. 147 148 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 149 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 150 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 151 152 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 153 various date fields in different formats. 154 155 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 156 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 157 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 158 objects. 159 160 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 161 162 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 163 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 164 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 165 files", but we now use the safer default). 166 167 * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and 168 fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable 169 and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. 170 171 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 172 push is run. 173 174 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 175 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 176 177 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 178 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 179 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 180 181 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 182 ":ref" refspec. 183 184 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 185 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 186 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 187 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 188 back-up repository. 189 190 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 191 192 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is 193 recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users 194 can be switched to git just by changing their login shell. 195 196 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive 197 and post-update hooks. 198 199 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 200 201 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 202 merge". 203 204 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched 205 into your current branch. 206 207 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import 208 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. 209 210 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. 211 212 * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch 213 subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. 214 215 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. The interactive prompt 216 and menu can be colored by setting color.interactive 217 configuration. The diff output (including the hunk picker) 218 are colored with color.diff configuration. 219 220 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent 221 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual 222 safety valve. 223 224 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree 225 from its first parent. 226 227 * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that 228 began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This 229 behaviour has been made configurable. 230 231 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. 232 233 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was 234 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" 235 (without extra args) for that. 236 237 * "git stash clear extra-text" does not clear the whole stash 238 anymore. It is tempting to expect "git stash clear stash@{2}" 239 to drop only a single named stash entry, and it is rude to 240 discard everything when that is asked (but not provided). 241 242 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from 243 getting pruned. 244 245 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are 246 descendants of a given commit. 247 248 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 249 implementations. 250 251 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 252 253 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". 254 255 * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed 256 environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git 257 bisect visualize tig"). 258 259 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 260 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 261 are formatted. 262 263 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 264 exclude files. 265 266 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 267 annotation message. 268 269 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 270 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 271 paragraphs. 272 273 * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to 274 include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly 275 speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a 276 reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been 277 relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway. 278 279 * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps" 280 and produced a corrupt import silently. 281 282 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 283 CVS working directory. 284 285 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 286 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 287 288 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 289 information in the reflog. 290 291 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 292 293 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 294 295 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 296 297 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 298 .git/config. 299 300 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 301 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 302 message. 303 304 * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings 305 between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact 306 for this information has been introduced to correct this. 307 308 * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them 309 up; this was corrected. 310 311 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which 312 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The 313 traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of 314 the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths 315 configuration variable to false. 316 317 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; 318 this has been corrected. 319 320 * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is 321 a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. 322 323 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as 324 authors' names. 325 326 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. 327 328 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 329 330 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 331 brought from the msysgit effort. 332 333 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 334 335 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 336 337 338Fixes since v1.5.3 339------------------ 340 341All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 342this release, unless otherwise noted. 343 344These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 345series. 346 347 * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way 348 "git apply --whitespace=warn" works. 349 350 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 351 and project names. 352 353 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define 354 REG_NOMATCH to an even number. 355 356 * Recent versions of AsciiDoc 8 has a change to break our 357 documentation; a workaround has been implemented. 358 359-- 360exec >/var/tmp/1 361O=v1.5.4-rc3 362echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 363git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint