* As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus"
helper script lost all its users and has been removed.
+ * Curl library older than 7.10 is not supported by "git http-push",
+ as it does not work without CURLM.
+
Deprecation notices
-------------------
- * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0)
+ * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0)
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 $PATH. This implies:
- - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
+ - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
- dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead.
+ dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead.
- - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the
+ - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the
return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.
- - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(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.
* 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, starting from v1.6.0.
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.
+
+ * "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 packfile (i.e. more efficient storage).
+ 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.
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.
* 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).
* "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" has been fixed.
+ * 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
* "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
+ behaviour 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.
* 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 script shouldn't have been
+ 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.
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.
+ configuration variable to false.
* "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly;
this has been corrected.
* "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define
REG_NOMATCH to an even number.
+ * 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.
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4-rc0-85-gdbedf97
+O=v1.5.4-rc4
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint