* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for
fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/.
-* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0.
+* Comes with git-gui 0.8.2.
* Comes with updated gitk.
- "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when
sending out more than one patches.
+ - "git send-email" can also be told how to find whom to cc the
+ message to for each message via --cc-cmd.
+
- "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to
help scripts.
- "git init -q" makes the command quieter.
+ - "git -p command" now has a cousin of opposite sex, "git --no-pager
+ command".
+
* Updated behavior of existing commands.
- "gitweb" can offer multiple snapshot formats.
- "git clone" uses -l (hardlink files under .git) by default when
cloning locally.
+ - URL used for "git clone" and friends can specify nonstandard SSH port
+ by using ssh://host:port/path/to/repo syntax.
+
- "git bundle create" can now create a bundle without negative refs,
i.e. "everything since the beginning up to certain points".
recursively descends into trees by default.
- "git diff" does not show differences that come only from
- stat-dirtiness in the form of "diff --git" header anymore. When
- generating a textual diff, it shows a warning message at the end.
+ stat-dirtiness in the form of "diff --git" header anymore.
+ It runs "update-index --refresh" silently as needed.
+
+ - "git tag -l" used to match tags by globbing its parameter as if it
+ has wildcard '*' on both ends, which made "git tag -l gui" to match
+ tag 'gitgui-0.7.0'; this was very annoying. You now have to add
+ asterisk on the sides you want to wildcard yourself.
- The editor to use with many interactive commands can be
overridden with GIT_EDITOR environment variable, or if it
- "git log" learned --log-size to show the number of bytes in
the log message part of the output to help qgit.
+ - "git log --name-status" does not require you to give "-r" anymore.
+ As a general rule, Porcelain commands should recurse when showing
+ diff.
+
+ - "git format-patch --root A" can be used to format everything
+ since the beginning up to A. This was supported with
+ "git format-patch --root A A" for a long time, but was not
+ properly documented.
+
- "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information.
- "git svnimport" allows an empty string to be specified as the
when switching branches that have differences in only a
handful paths.
- - "git commit paths..." has also been optimized.
-
+ - "git add paths..." and "git commit paths..." has also been
+ heavily optimized.
Fixes since v1.5.2
------------------
- "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older
Encode.pm Perl module.
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.3-rc4
-echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
+ - "git svn" misparsed the data from the commits in the repository when
+ the user had "color.diff = true" in the configuration. This has been
+ fixed.
+
+ - There was a case where "git svn dcommit" clobbered changes made on the
+ SVN side while committing multiple changes.
+
+ - "git-write-tree" had a bad interaction with racy-git avoidance and
+ gitattributes mechanisms.
+
+ - "git --bare command" overrode existing GIT_DIR setting and always
+ made it treat the current working directory as GIT_DIR.
+
+ - "git ls-files --error-unmatch" does not complain if you give the
+ same path pattern twice by mistake.
+
+ - "git init" autodetected core.filemode but not core.symlinks, which
+ made a new directory created automatically by "git clone" cumbersome
+ to use on filesystems that require these configurations to be set.
+
+ - "git log" family of commands behaved differently when run as "git
+ log" (no pathspec) and as "git log --" (again, no pathspec). This
+ inconsistency was introduced somewhere in v1.3.0 series but now has
+ been corrected.
+
+ - "git rebase -m" incorrectly displayed commits that were skipped.