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(documentation) 22 23* Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made 24 available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of 25 the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation 26 files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became 27 "gittutorial.html"). 28 29(performance) 30 31* "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a 32 repository with insane number of refs. 33 34* "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of 35 $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree 36 files unnecessarily. This has been optimized. 37 38* Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing 39 plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object. 40 41(usability, bells and whistles) 42 43* "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to 44 apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes. 45 46* "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information. 47 48* "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it 49 does its work on a detached HEAD. 50 51* "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up 52 branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull" 53 and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen. 54 55* "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list 56 branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the 57 current branch. 58 59* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off. 60 61* "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing 62 somebody else's changes. 63 64* "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual 65 changes. 66 67* "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated. 68 69* "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary 70 changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only 71 for reviewing. 72 73* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now. 74 75* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it. 76 77* "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry, 78 instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how 79 "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works. 80 81* "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry 82 graph at the left margin of the output. 83 84* "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different 85 from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable. 86 87* "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository. 88 89* "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting. 90 91* "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule 92 summary". 93 94* "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship 95 by munging the commit log message. 96 97* new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized. 98 99* "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file. 100 101(internal) 102 103* "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about 104 detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire. 105 106 107Fixes since v1.5.5 108------------------ 109 110All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in 111this release, unless otherwise noted. 112 113 114-- 115exec >/var/tmp/1 116O=v1.5.6-rc3 117echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 118git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint