1GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.4 5-------------------- 6 7(performance) 8 9 * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there 10 is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with 11 our software. 12 13 * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used 14 in place of command line option --max-pack-size. 15 16 * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a 17 connection to find out the set of current remote refs and 18 another to actually download the pack data. We now use only 19 one connection for these tasks. 20 21 * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary 22 anymore. 23 24(usability, bells and whistles) 25 26 * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in 27 such a way that results in an irreversible conversion. 28 29 * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to 30 enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of 31 individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch". 32 33 * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they 34 require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current 35 subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a 36 case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the 37 work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works. 38 39 * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden, 40 when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along 41 with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER. 42 43 * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory 44 "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before. 45 46 * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about 47 operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.). 48 49 * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be 50 used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what 51 is given from the command line. 52 53 * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as 54 expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch). 55 In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push" 56 configuration variable. 57 58 * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit. 59 60 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch, 61 a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a 62 later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to 63 see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully 64 apply such a patch series. 65 66 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can 67 optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on 68 the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to 69 "always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local 70 branch. 71 72 * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set 73 (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch 74 and the other branch diverged. 75 76 * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent 77 for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit 78 more impatient and starts showing progress report early. 79 80 * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can 81 inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit 82 log message template to be edited. 83 84 * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for 85 naming with --match option. 86 87 * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit 88 cannot be described. 89 90 * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged. 91 92 * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths 93 relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory. 94 95 * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of 96 changes more concisely than "--diffstat". 97 98 * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover 99 letter template. 100 101 * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option. 102 103 * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>", 104 instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>". 105 106 * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for 107 <what> without treating it as a regular expression. 108 109 * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking. 110 111 * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords 112 interactively. 113 114 * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC 115 recipients. 116 117 * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git 118 repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads. 119 120 * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and 121 "git p4" improvements. 122 123(internal) 124 125 * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that 126 launches user's preferred browser has been refactored. 127 128 * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known 129 breakages. 130 131 * "git checkout" is rewritten in C. 132 133 * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common 134 lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier 135 to read. 136 137 * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and 138 is more consistent now. 139 140 141Fixes since v1.5.4 142------------------ 143 144All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in 145this release, unless otherwise noted. 146 147--- 148exec >/var/tmp/1 149O=v1.5.4.3-339-g7cf7f54 150echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 151git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint