1GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.5 5-------------------- 6 7(subsystems) 8 9* Comes with updated gitk and git-gui. 10 11(portability) 12 13* git will build on AIX better than before now. 14 15* core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on 16 filesystems that are not case sensitive. 17 18* "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and 19 sets core.ignorecase accordingly. 20 21(performance) 22 23* "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a 24 repository with insane number of refs. 25 26* "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of 27 $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree 28 files unnecessarily. This has been optimized. 29 30* Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing 31 plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object. 32 33(usability, bells and whistles) 34 35* "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to 36 apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes. 37 38* "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information. 39 40* "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it 41 does its work on a detached HEAD. 42 43* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up 44 branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull" 45 and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen. 46 47* "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list 48 branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the 49 current branch. 50 51* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off. 52 53* "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing 54 somebody else's changes. 55 56* "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual 57 changes. 58 59* "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated. 60 61* "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary 62 changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only 63 for reviewing. 64 65* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it. 66 67* "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry, 68 instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how 69 "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works. 70 71* "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry 72 graph at the left margin of the output. 73 74* "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different 75 from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable. 76 77* "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository. 78 79* "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting. 80 81* "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule 82 summary". 83 84* "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship 85 by munging the commit log message. 86 87* "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file. 88 89(internal) 90 91* "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about 92 detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire. 93 94 95Fixes since v1.5.5 96------------------ 97 98All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in 99this release, unless otherwise noted. 100 101 102-- 103exec >/var/tmp/1 104O=v1.5.6-rc0 105echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 106git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint