Updates since v1.5.4
--------------------
+(subsystems)
+
+ * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3.
+
+(portability)
+
+ * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
+ on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
+ users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
+
+ * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
+ to Solaris has been applied.
+
(performance)
* On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
(usability, bells and whistles)
+ * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
+ options.
+
* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
+ * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
+ enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
+ individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
+
+ * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
+ require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
+ subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
+ case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
+ work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
+
+ * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
+ when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
+ with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
+
* A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
"foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
+ * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
+ operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
+
+ * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
+ used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
+ is given from the command line.
+
+ * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
+
+ * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
+
+ * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
+ a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
+ later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
+ see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
+ apply such a patch series.
+
+ * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
+ optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
+ the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
+ "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option
+ was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does
+ not happen when branching from a local branch.
+
+ * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
+ (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
+ and the other branch diverged.
+
+ * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
+ for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
+ more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
+
+ * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
+ inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
+ log message template to be edited.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
+
* "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
naming with --match option.
* "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
cannot be described.
- * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
- operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
+ * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
- * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
- inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
- log message template to be edited.
+ * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
+ instead of just showing the exact tagname.
+
+ * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
+ with each other.
+
+ * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
+ relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
+
+ * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
+ changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
+ letter template.
+
+ * "git gc" learned --quiet option.
+
+ * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
+ weeks old or older.
+
+ * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto
+ to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default.
+
+ * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
+
+ * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
+ instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
+
+ * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
+ be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
+
+ * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
+ still restores the size).
+
+ * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
+ <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
* "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
+ * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
+ expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
+ In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
+ configuration variable.
+
+ * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
+ repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
+
* "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
interactively.
* "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
recipients.
+ * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
+ removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
+ stash entry.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
+ symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
+ of the submodule commits.
+
* Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
"git p4" improvements.
* It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
breakages.
+ * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
+
+ * "git remote" is rewritten in C.
+
+ * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
+ lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
+ to read.
+
+ * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
+ is more consistent now.
+
+ * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
+ will help reimplementing more things in C.
Fixes since v1.5.4
------------------
All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
+ * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
+ "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
+
+ * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
+ "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
+
+ * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but
+ segfaulted.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4
-O=v1.5.4.2-122-g7cb97da
+O=v1.5.5-rc1-21-g319a36a
echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
-