* "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.
+
+
+Temporarily disabled
+--------------------
+
+ * "git http-push" is known not to work well with cURL library older
+ than 7.16, and we had reports of repository corruption. It is
+ disabled on such platforms for now. Unfortunately, 1.5.3.8 shares
+ the same issue. In other words, this does not mean you will be
+ fine if you stick to an older git release. For now, please do not
+ use http-push from older git with cURL older than 7.16 if you
+ value your data. A proper fix will hopefully materialize in
+ later versions.
+
Deprecation notices
-------------------
- * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but
- it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands
+ * From v1.6.0, git will by default install dashed form of commands
(e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install
only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This
implies:
- - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
+ - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
- dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead.
+ dash-less forms (e.g. "git commit") instead.
- - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the
+ - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the
return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.
- - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
+ - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change.
- Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
- to prepare for this.
+ Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
+ to prepare for this change.
* The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede
- post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length
+ the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length
limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated
- in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5.
+ in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0.
* "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
option, and will be removed in the future.
* "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.
+ and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" 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).
+ * "git repo-config" which was an old name for "git config" command
+ has been supported without being advertised for a long time. The
+ next feature release will remove it.
+
+ * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
+ to true, which will give denser packfiles (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,
+ * From v1.6.0, 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
Updates since v1.5.3
--------------------
- * Comes with much improved gitk.
+ * Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n.
- * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n.
+ * Comes with git-gui 0.9.2 with i18n.
* gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in
preparation for its i18n.
- * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
+ * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
Transfer commands show throughput data.
* many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do
* Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been
optimized.
- * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has
+ * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has
been greatly optimized.
- * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking
- pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were
- found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random.
+ * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking
+ pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were
+ found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random.
* Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to
mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal).
This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto".
+ * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which
+ is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF.
+
+ * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than
+ "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/".
+
+ * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny
+ characters properly.
+
+ * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved
+ when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually
+ produce diff.
+
* HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
variable.
* "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
+ * "git reset --hard" does not make any sense in a bare
+ repository, but did not error out; fixed.
+
* "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
* "git rebase" learned --whitespace option.
* "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.
+ * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed.
+
* "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a
successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for
the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was
command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a
commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore.
- * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the
+ * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<date-format>) syntax to show the
various date fields in different formats.
* "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of
* "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand.
- * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell".
+ * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is
+ recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users
+ can be switched to git just by changing their login shell.
* "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive
and post-update hooks.
* "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched
into your current branch.
- * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import
+ * "git fast-export" produces data-stream that can be fed to fast-import
to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.
* "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on.
* "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch
subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done.
- * "git add -i" UI has been colorized.
+ * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. The interactive prompt
+ and menu can be colored by setting color.interactive
+ configuration. The diff output (including the hunk picker)
+ are colored with color.diff configuration.
* "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent
commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual
* "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
from its first parent.
+ * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that
+ began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This behavior has
+ been made configurable.
+
* "git commit" has been rewritten in C.
* "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was
a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash"
(without extra args) for that.
+ * "git stash clear extra-text" does not clear the whole stash
+ anymore. It is tempting to expect "git stash clear stash@{2}"
+ to drop only a single named stash entry, and it is rude to
+ discard everything when that is asked (but not provided).
+
* "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from
getting pruned.
"git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate
paragraphs.
+ * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to
+ include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly
+ speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a
+ reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been
+ relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps"
+ and produced a corrupt import silently.
+
* "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
CVS working directory.
between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact
for this information has been introduced to correct this.
+ * "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
+ traditional behavior to show the full path relative to the top of
the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths
- configuration variable to true.
+ configuration variable to false.
* "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly;
this has been corrected.
* "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers.
- * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
+ * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably:
- many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
brought from the msysgit effort.
- enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
+ * Makefile tweaks to support HP-UX is in.
Fixes since v1.5.3
------------------
These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance
series.
- * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
+ * 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.
* "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define
REG_NOMATCH to an even number.
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4-rc0
-echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
+ * Recent versions of AsciiDoc 8 has a change to break our
+ documentation; a workaround has been implemented.
+
+ * "git diff --color-words" colored context lines in a wrong color.