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 * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but 18 it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands 19 (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install 20 only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This 21 implies: 22 23 - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 24 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 25 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 26 dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead. 27 28 - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the 29 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 30 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 31 32 - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 33 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 34 35 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 36 to prepare for this. 37 38 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 39 post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 40 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 41 in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5. 42 43 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 44 option, and will be removed in the future. 45 46 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 47 and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future. 48 49 * From v1.5.5, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default 50 to true, which will give denser packfile (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 v1.5.5, 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 display 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 naturally looking 84 pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were 85 found in the preimage, they were 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 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using 92 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration 93 variable. 94 95 * Various Perforce importer updates. 96 97 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 98 99 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use 100 ":/string" syntax to name a commit. 101 102 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 103 104 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 105 106 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 107 108 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 109 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 110 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 111 runs it for you. 112 113 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 114 115 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 116 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 117 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 118 started. 119 120 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. 121 122 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 123 124 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 125 threads. 126 127 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 128 export-subst attribute. 129 130 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 131 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 132 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 133 134 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 135 various date fields in different formats. 136 137 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 138 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 139 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 140 objects. 141 142 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 143 144 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 145 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 146 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 147 files", but we now use the safer default). 148 149 * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and 150 fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable 151 and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. 152 153 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 154 push is run. 155 156 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 157 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 158 159 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 160 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 161 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 162 163 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 164 ":ref" refspec. 165 166 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 167 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 168 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 169 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 170 back-up repository. 171 172 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 173 174 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". 175 176 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive 177 and post-update hooks. 178 179 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 180 181 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 182 merge". 183 184 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched 185 into your current branch. 186 187 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import 188 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. 189 190 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. 191 192 * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch 193 subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. 194 195 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. 196 197 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent 198 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual 199 safety valve. 200 201 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree 202 from its first parent. 203 204 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. 205 206 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was 207 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" 208 (without extra args) for that. 209 210 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from 211 getting pruned. 212 213 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are 214 descendants of a given commit. 215 216 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 217 implementations. 218 219 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 220 221 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". 222 223 * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed 224 environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git 225 bisect visualize tig"). 226 227 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 228 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 229 are formatted. 230 231 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 232 exclude files. 233 234 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 235 annotation message. 236 237 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 238 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 239 paragraphs. 240 241 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 242 CVS working directory. 243 244 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 245 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 246 247 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 248 information in the reflog. 249 250 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 251 252 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 253 254 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 255 256 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 257 .git/config. 258 259 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 260 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 261 message. 262 263 * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings 264 between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact 265 for this information has been introduced to correct this. 266 267 * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them 268 up; this was corrected. 269 270 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which 271 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The 272 traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of 273 the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths 274 configuration variable to true. 275 276 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; 277 this has been corrected. 278 279 * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is 280 a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. 281 282 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as 283 authors' names. 284 285 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. 286 287 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 288 289 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 290 brought from the msysgit effort. 291 292 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 293 294 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 295 296 297Fixes since v1.5.3 298------------------ 299 300All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 301this release, unless otherwise noted. 302 303These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 304series. 305 306 * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way 307 "git apply --whitespace=warn" works. 308 309 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 310 and project names. 311 312 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define 313 REG_NOMATCH to an even number. 314 315-- 316exec >/var/tmp/1 317O=v1.5.4-rc0-35-g530e741 318echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 319git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint