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 * Curl library older than 7.10 is not supported by "git http-push", 14 as it does not work without CURLM. 15 16 17Deprecation notices 18------------------- 19 20 * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0) 21 will by default install dashed form of commands (e.g. "git-commit") 22 outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install only selected 23 commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This implies: 24 25 - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 26 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 27 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 28 dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead. 29 30 - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the 31 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 32 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 33 34 - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 35 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 36 37 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 38 to prepare for this. 39 40 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 41 the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 42 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 43 in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0. 44 45 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 46 option, and will be removed in the future. 47 48 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 49 and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in 50 the future. 51 52 * "git repo-config" which was an old name for "git config" command 53 has been supported without being advertised for a long time. The 54 next feature release will remove it. 55 56 * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default 57 to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage). 58 The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able 59 to directly use a repository packed using this setting. 60 61 * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2, 62 which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to 63 data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1 64 of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly 65 access corresponding pack files. 66 67 68Updates since v1.5.3 69-------------------- 70 71 * Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n. 72 73 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n. 74 75 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in 76 preparation for its i18n. 77 78 * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. 79 Transfer commands show throughput data. 80 81 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do 82 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. 83 84 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been 85 optimized. 86 87 * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has 88 been greatly optimized. 89 90 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking 91 pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were 92 found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random. 93 94 * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to 95 mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). 96 This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto". 97 98 * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which 99 is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF. 100 101 * "git diff" can be told to use different prefixes other than 102 "a/" and "b/" e.g. "git diff --src-prefix=l/ --dst-prefix=k/". 103 104 * "git diff" sometimes did not quote paths with funny 105 characters properly. 106 107 * "git log" (and any revision traversal commands) misbehaved 108 when --diff-filter is given but was not asked to actually 109 produce diff. 110 111 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using 112 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration 113 variable. 114 115 * Various Perforce importer updates. 116 117 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 118 119 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use 120 ":/string" syntax to name a commit. 121 122 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 123 124 * "git reset --hard" does not make any sense in a bare 125 repository, but did not error out; fixed. 126 127 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 128 129 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 130 131 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 132 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 133 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 134 runs it for you. 135 136 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 137 138 * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed. 139 140 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 141 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 142 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 143 started. 144 145 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. 146 147 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 148 149 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 150 threads. 151 152 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 153 export-subst attribute. 154 155 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 156 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 157 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 158 159 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 160 various date fields in different formats. 161 162 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 163 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 164 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 165 objects. 166 167 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 168 169 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 170 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 171 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 172 files", but we now use the safer default). 173 174 * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and 175 fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable 176 and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. 177 178 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 179 push is run. 180 181 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 182 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 183 184 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 185 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 186 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 187 188 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 189 ":ref" refspec. 190 191 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 192 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 193 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 194 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 195 back-up repository. 196 197 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 198 199 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is 200 recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users 201 can be switched to git just by changing their login shell. 202 203 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive 204 and post-update hooks. 205 206 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 207 208 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 209 merge". 210 211 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched 212 into your current branch. 213 214 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import 215 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. 216 217 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. 218 219 * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch 220 subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. 221 222 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. The interactive prompt 223 and menu can be colored by setting color.interactive 224 configuration. The diff output (including the hunk picker) 225 are colored with color.diff configuration. 226 227 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent 228 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual 229 safety valve. 230 231 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree 232 from its first parent. 233 234 * "git commit" used to unconditionally strip comment lines that 235 began with '#' and removed excess blank lines. This 236 behaviour has been made configurable. 237 238 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. 239 240 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was 241 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" 242 (without extra args) for that. 243 244 * "git stash clear extra-text" does not clear the whole stash 245 anymore. It is tempting to expect "git stash clear stash@{2}" 246 to drop only a single named stash entry, and it is rude to 247 discard everything when that is asked (but not provided). 248 249 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from 250 getting pruned. 251 252 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are 253 descendants of a given commit. 254 255 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 256 implementations. 257 258 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 259 260 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". 261 262 * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed 263 environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git 264 bisect visualize tig"). 265 266 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 267 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 268 are formatted. 269 270 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 271 exclude files. 272 273 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 274 annotation message. 275 276 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 277 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 278 paragraphs. 279 280 * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to 281 include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly 282 speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a 283 reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been 284 relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway. 285 286 * "git cvsimport" did not notice errors from underlying "cvsps" 287 and produced a corrupt import silently. 288 289 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 290 CVS working directory. 291 292 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 293 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 294 295 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 296 information in the reflog. 297 298 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 299 300 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 301 302 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 303 304 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 305 .git/config. 306 307 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 308 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 309 message. 310 311 * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings 312 between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact 313 for this information has been introduced to correct this. 314 315 * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them 316 up; this was corrected. 317 318 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which 319 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The 320 traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of 321 the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths 322 configuration variable to false. 323 324 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; 325 this has been corrected. 326 327 * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is 328 a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. 329 330 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as 331 authors' names. 332 333 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. 334 335 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 336 337 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 338 brought from the msysgit effort. 339 340 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 341 342 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 343 344 345Fixes since v1.5.3 346------------------ 347 348All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 349this release, unless otherwise noted. 350 351These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 352series. 353 354 * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way 355 "git apply --whitespace=warn" works. 356 357 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 358 and project names. 359 360 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define 361 REG_NOMATCH to an even number. 362 363 * Recent versions of AsciiDoc 8 has a change to break our 364 documentation; a workaround has been implemented. 365 366 * "git diff --color-words" colored context lines in a wrong color. 367 368-- 369exec >/var/tmp/1 370O=v1.5.4-rc4 371echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 372git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint