1GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.4 5-------------------- 6 7(subsystems) 8 9 * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3. 10 11(portability) 12 13 * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit 14 on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root 15 users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway. 16 17 * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port 18 to Solaris has been applied. 19 20(performance) 21 22 * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there 23 is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with 24 our software. 25 26 * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used 27 in place of command line option --max-pack-size. 28 29 * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a 30 connection to find out the set of current remote refs and 31 another to actually download the pack data. We now use only 32 one connection for these tasks. 33 34 * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary 35 anymore. 36 37(usability, bells and whistles) 38 39 * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and 40 options. 41 42 * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in 43 such a way that results in an irreversible conversion. 44 45 * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to 46 enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of 47 individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch". 48 49 * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they 50 require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current 51 subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a 52 case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the 53 work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works. 54 55 * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden, 56 when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along 57 with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER. 58 59 * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory 60 "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before. 61 62 * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about 63 operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.). 64 65 * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be 66 used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what 67 is given from the command line. 68 69 * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit. 70 71 * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason. 72 73 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch, 74 a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a 75 later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to 76 see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully 77 apply such a patch series. 78 79 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can 80 optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on 81 the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to 82 "always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local 83 branch. 84 85 * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set 86 (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch 87 and the other branch diverged. 88 89 * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent 90 for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit 91 more impatient and starts showing progress report early. 92 93 * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can 94 inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit 95 log message template to be edited. 96 97 * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options. 98 99 * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for 100 naming with --match option. 101 102 * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit 103 cannot be described. 104 105 * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged. 106 107 * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1, 108 instead of just showing the exact tagname. 109 110 * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict 111 with each other. 112 113 * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths 114 relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory. 115 116 * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of 117 changes more concisely than "--diffstat". 118 119 * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover 120 letter template. 121 122 * "git gc" learned --quiet option. 123 124 * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two 125 weeks old or older. 126 127 * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto 128 to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default. 129 130 * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option. 131 132 * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>", 133 instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>". 134 135 * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can 136 be configured using "man.viewer" configuration. 137 138 * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it 139 still restores the size). 140 141 * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for 142 <what> without treating it as a regular expression. 143 144 * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking. 145 146 * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as 147 expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch). 148 In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push" 149 configuration variable. 150 151 * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git 152 repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads. 153 154 * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords 155 interactively. 156 157 * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC 158 recipients. 159 160 * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and 161 removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named 162 stash entry. 163 164 * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the 165 symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version 166 of the submodule commits. 167 168 * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and 169 "git p4" improvements. 170 171(internal) 172 173 * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that 174 launches user's preferred browser has been refactored. 175 176 * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known 177 breakages. 178 179 * "git checkout" is rewritten in C. 180 181 * "git remote" is rewritten in C. 182 183 * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common 184 lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier 185 to read. 186 187 * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and 188 is more consistent now. 189 190 * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This 191 will help reimplementing more things in C. 192 193Fixes since v1.5.4 194------------------ 195 196All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in 197this release, unless otherwise noted. 198 199 * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual 200 "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax. 201 202 * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if 203 "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session. 204 205--- 206exec >/var/tmp/1 207O=v1.5.5-rc1 208echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 209git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint