1GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.2 5-------------------- 6 7* The commit walkers other than http are officially deprecated, 8 but still supported for now. 9 10* The submodule support has Porcelain layer. 11 12* There are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better 13 with repositories with pathologically large blobs in them. 14 15* For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for 16 fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. 17 18* Comes with git-gui 0.8.0. 19 20* Comes with updated gitk. 21 22* New commands and options. 23 24 - "git stash" allows you to quickly save away your work in 25 progress and replay it later on an updated state. 26 27 - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode that let you 28 pick and reorder which commits to rebuild. 29 30 - "git fsck" can save its findings in $GIT_DIR/lost-found, 31 without a separate invocation of "git lost-found" command. 32 33 - $GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable can be used together with 34 $GIT_DIR to work in a subdirectory of a working tree that is 35 not located at "$GIT_DIR/..". 36 37 - "git log" learned a new option "--follow", to follow 38 renaming history of a single file. 39 40 - "git-filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of 41 the current branch, creating a new branch. You can specify a 42 number of filters to modify the commits, files and trees. 43 44 - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all, 45 --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon. 46 47 - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from 48 the superproject that contain them. 49 50 - In addition to core.compression configuration option, 51 core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can 52 independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose 53 and packed objects. 54 55 - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the 56 tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l". 57 58 - "git-rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and 59 --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used 60 for --grep fitering. 61 62 - "git-describe --contains" is a handier way to call more 63 obscure command "git-name-rev --tags". 64 65 - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles 66 to optimize the repository harder. 67 68 - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid 69 exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size". 70 71 - "git fsck" gained --verbose option. This is really really 72 verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is 73 corrupt in your repository. 74 75 - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This 76 may be useful for MH users. 77 78 - "git format-patch" learned format.subjectprefix configuration 79 variable, which serves the same purpose as "--subject-prefix" 80 option. 81 82 - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags. 83 84 - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout. 85 86 - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that change 87 whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option. 88 89 - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when 90 sending out more than one patches. 91 92 - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to 93 help scripts. 94 95 - "git init -q" makes the command quieter. 96 97* Updated behavior of existing commands. 98 99 - "git svn dcommit" retains local merge information. 100 101 - "git config" to set values also honors type flags like --bool 102 and --int. 103 104 - core.quotepath configuration can be used to make textual git 105 output to emit most of the characters in the path literally. 106 107 - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking 108 notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc. 109 110 - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before. The 111 default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI 112 allows to choose normal diff with any parent. 113 114 - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at 115 $path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part 116 in the filename, which we used to discard. 117 118 - "git cvsimport" creates lightweight tags; there is no 119 interesting information we can record in an annotated tag, 120 and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not 121 properly formed anyway. 122 123 - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from 124 the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking 125 branches if you have any. 126 127 - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the 128 color.diff configuration. 129 130 - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at 131 the end of the file. 132 133 - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with "-v" option shows 134 connection status, and the IP address of the other end, to 135 help diagnosing problems. 136 137 - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when 138 set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format 139 that mimicks the format used by objects stored in packs. It 140 turns out that this was not so useful. Although we will 141 continue to read objects written in that format, we do not 142 honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in 143 the legacy/traditional format. 144 145 - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be 146 spelled as "-C -C" for brevity. 147 148 - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir 149 formatted mailboxes. 150 151 - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login" 152 request. 153 154 - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in 155 .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that 156 come from paths with delta attribute set to false. 157 158 - "new-workdir" script (in contrib) can now be used with a 159 bare repository. 160 161 - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff. 162 163 - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface. 164 165 - "git log" and friends did not handle a commit log message 166 that is larger than 16kB; they do now. 167 168 - "--pretty=oneline" output format for "git log" and friends 169 deals with "malformed" commit log messages that have more 170 than one lines in the first paragraph better. We used to 171 show the first line, cutting the title at mid-sentence; we 172 concatenate them into a single line and treat the result as 173 "oneline". 174 175* Builds 176 177 - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function 178 without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)") 179 have been eradicated. 180 181* Performance Tweaks 182 183 - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching 184 small enough delta results it creates while looking for the 185 best delta candidates. 186 187 - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved 188 to work better on big files. 189 190 - when there are more than one pack files in the repository, 191 the runtime used to try finding an object always from the 192 newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found 193 the object requested the last time, which exploits the 194 locality of references. 195 196 - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost 197 by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them. 198 199 200Fixes since v1.5.2 201------------------ 202 203All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in 204this release, unless otherwise noted. 205 206* Bugfixes 207 208 - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older 209 Encode.pm Perl module. 210 211-- 212exec >/var/tmp/1 213O=v1.5.3-rc0 214echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 215git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint