- "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff
replacement with git specific enhancements.
+ - "git diff --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible
+ custom log output.
+
+ - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input).
+
+ - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero
+ status when it found differences. In the future we might
+ want to make this the default but that would be a rather big
+ backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for
+ now.
+
+ - "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration
+ variables to help it easier to base your work on branches
+ you track from a remote site.
+
+ - "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use
+ --inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed.
+
- "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags
used for naming the given revisions only to the ones
matching the given pattern.
- "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between
repositories.
+ - "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict
+ resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools.
+
+ - A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable
+ symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are
+ checked out as regular files instead.
+
* Updated behaviour of existing commands.
+ - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects.
+
+ - "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git
+ branch names from arch names.
+
- git-svn got almost a rewrite.
- core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git
LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider
'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to
- allow users to explicitly override this heuristics based on
+ allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on
paths.
- The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory,
- "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner.
+ - "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less
+ noisy when the output does not go to tty.
+
+ - "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow
+ even when there are not many changes that needed
+ transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting
+ the heaviest parts in C.
+
+ - "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the
+ metainformation was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It
+ handles nested multipart better.
+
+ - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to.
+
+ - Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever
+ use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log
+ family of commands that involve reading many tree objects.
+ In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes
+ with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison
+ between the trees as early as possible.
+
+
* Hooks
- The sample update hook to show how to send out notification
the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared
on the branch.
+
+* Others
+
+ - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins.
+
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.0.2-259-g16d5315
+O=v1.5.0.5-446-g5d86501
echo O=`git describe master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint