* "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there
in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported.
+ * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus"
+ helper script lost all its users and has been removed.
+
Deprecation notices
-------------------
* "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C
and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future.
+ * From v1.5.5, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
+ to true, which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage).
+ The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able
+ to directly use a repository packed using this setting.
+
+ * From v1.5.5, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2,
+ which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to
+ data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1
+ of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly
+ access corresponding pack files.
+
Updates since v1.5.3
--------------------
variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked
files", but we now use the safer default).
+ * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and
+ fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable
+ and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file.
+
* "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a
push is run.
* "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
+ * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view".
+
+ * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed
+ environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git
+ bisect visualize tig").
+
* "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits
are formatted.
* "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow
checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up.
+ * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
+ information in the reflog.
+
* "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis.
* "git merge-ours" is now built-in.
descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit
message.
- * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths which makes
- copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier.
+ * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings
+ between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact
+ for this information has been introduced to correct this.
- * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
- information in the reflog.
+ * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them
+ up; this was corrected.
+
+ * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which
+ makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The
+ traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of
+ the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths
+ configuration variable to true.
+
+ * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly;
+ this has been corrected.
+
+ * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is
+ a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter.
+
+ * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as
+ authors' names.
+
+ * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers.
* In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance
series.
+ * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way
+ "git apply --whitespace=warn" works.
+
* "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
and project names.
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.3.7-1111-gd9f4059
+O=v1.5.4-rc0-35-g530e741
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint