1GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Removal 5------- 6 7 * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there 8 in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported. 9 10 * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus" 11 helper script lost all its users and has been removed. 12 13 14Deprecation notices 15------------------- 16 17 * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0) 18 will by default install dashed form of commands (e.g. "git-commit") 19 outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install only selected 20 commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This implies: 21 22 - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 23 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 24 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 25 dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead. 26 27 - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the 28 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 29 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 30 31 - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 32 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 33 34 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 35 to prepare for this. 36 37 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 38 the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 39 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 40 in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0. 41 42 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 43 option, and will be removed in the future. 44 45 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 46 and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in 47 the future. 48 49 * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default 50 to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage). 51 The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able 52 to directly use a repository packed using this setting. 53 54 * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2, 55 which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to 56 data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1 57 of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly 58 access corresponding pack files. 59 60 61Updates since v1.5.3 62-------------------- 63 64 * Comes with much improved gitk. 65 66 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n. 67 68 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in 69 preparation for its i18n. 70 71 * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. 72 Transfer commands show throughput data. 73 74 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do 75 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. 76 77 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been 78 optimized. 79 80 * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has 81 been greatly optimized. 82 83 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking 84 pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were 85 found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random. 86 87 * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to 88 mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). 89 This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto". 90 91 * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which 92 is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF. 93 94 * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than 95 "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/". 96 97 * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny 98 characters properly. 99 100 * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved 101 when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually 102 produce diff. 103 104 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using 105 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration 106 variable. 107 108 * Various Perforce importer updates. 109 110 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 111 112 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use 113 ":/string" syntax to name a commit. 114 115 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 116 117 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 118 119 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 120 121 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 122 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 123 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 124 runs it for you. 125 126 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 127 128 * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed. 129 130 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 131 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 132 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 133 started. 134 135 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. 136 137 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 138 139 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 140 threads. 141 142 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 143 export-subst attribute. 144 145 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 146 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 147 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 148 149 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 150 various date fields in different formats. 151 152 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 153 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 154 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 155 objects. 156 157 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 158 159 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 160 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 161 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 162 files", but we now use the safer default). 163 164 * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and 165 fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable 166 and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. 167 168 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 169 push is run. 170 171 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 172 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 173 174 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 175 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 176 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 177 178 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 179 ":ref" refspec. 180 181 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 182 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 183 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 184 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 185 back-up repository. 186 187 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 188 189 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is 190 recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users 191 can be switched to git just by changing their login shell. 192 193 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive 194 and post-update hooks. 195 196 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 197 198 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 199 merge". 200 201 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched 202 into your current branch. 203 204 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import 205 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. 206 207 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. 208 209 * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch 210 subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. 211 212 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. 213 214 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent 215 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual 216 safety valve. 217 218 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree 219 from its first parent. 220 221 * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that 222 began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This 223 behaviour has been made configurable. 224 225 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. 226 227 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was 228 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" 229 (without extra args) for that. 230 231 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from 232 getting pruned. 233 234 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are 235 descendants of a given commit. 236 237 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 238 implementations. 239 240 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 241 242 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". 243 244 * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed 245 environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git 246 bisect visualize tig"). 247 248 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 249 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 250 are formatted. 251 252 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 253 exclude files. 254 255 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 256 annotation message. 257 258 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 259 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 260 paragraphs. 261 262 * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to 263 include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly 264 speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a 265 reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been 266 relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway. 267 268 * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps" 269 and produced a corrupt import silently. 270 271 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 272 CVS working directory. 273 274 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 275 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 276 277 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 278 information in the reflog. 279 280 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 281 282 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 283 284 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 285 286 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 287 .git/config. 288 289 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 290 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 291 message. 292 293 * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings 294 between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact 295 for this information has been introduced to correct this. 296 297 * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them 298 up; this was corrected. 299 300 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which 301 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The 302 traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of 303 the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths 304 configuration variable to false. 305 306 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; 307 this has been corrected. 308 309 * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is 310 a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. 311 312 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as 313 authors' names. 314 315 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. 316 317 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 318 319 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 320 brought from the msysgit effort. 321 322 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 323 324 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 325 326 327Fixes since v1.5.3 328------------------ 329 330All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 331this release, unless otherwise noted. 332 333These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 334series. 335 336 * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way 337 "git apply --whitespace=warn" works. 338 339 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 340 and project names. 341 342 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define 343 REG_NOMATCH to an even number. 344 345-- 346exec >/var/tmp/1 347O=v1.5.4-rc1-36-g49e6be5 348echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 349git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint