1GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * Comes with much improved gitk. 8 9 * Comes with git-gui 0.9.0 with i18n. 10 11 * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found 12 option. 13 14 * git-peek-remote is deprecated, as git-ls-remote was written in C and 15 works for all transports. 16 17 * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the 18 eye. Transfer commands show throughput data. 19 20 * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 21 22 * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 23 24 * git-rebase learned --whitespace option. 25 26 * In git-rebase, when you decide not to replay a particular change 27 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git-rebase 28 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 29 run it for you. 30 31 * git-remote knows --mirror mode. 32 33 * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook. 34 35 * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads. 36 37 * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 38 export-subst attribute. 39 40 * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to 41 show the various date fields in different formats. 42 43 * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a 44 variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects 45 (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates 46 too many loose objects. 47 48 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 49 git-clean without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 50 variable used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer 51 default). 52 53 * git-clean has been rewritten in C. 54 55 * git-push has been rewritten in C. 56 57 * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen 58 if a push is run. 59 60 * git-push does not update a tracking ref on the pushing side when the 61 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 62 63 * git-push learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 64 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 65 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 66 67 * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand. 68 69 * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD. 70 71 * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell. 72 73 * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose. 74 75 * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge. 76 77 * Various Perforce importer updates. 78 79 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive 80 GUI implementations. 81 82 * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn. 83 84 * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 85 86 * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 87 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one 88 commits are formatted. 89 90 * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned 91 set of exclude files. 92 93 * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a 94 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} 95 for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase 96 was started. 97 98 * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the 99 existing annotation message. 100 101 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch 102 to the CVS working directory. 103 104 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" 105 to allow checking out a path outside the current directory 106 without cd'ing up. 107 108 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier 109 diagnosis. 110 111 * "git merge-ours" is built-in. 112 113 * "git svn" learned "info" subcommand. 114 115 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths 116 which makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm 117 easier. 118 119 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has 120 been optimized. 121 122 * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches, 123 has been greatly optimized. 124 125 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 126 127 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 128 129 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 130 brought from the msysgit effort. 131 132 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 133 134 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 135 136 137Fixes since v1.5.3 138------------------ 139 140All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 141this release, unless otherwise noted. 142 143 * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 144 and project names. 145 146 * "git rev-list --objects A..B" choked when the lower boundary 147 of the range involved a subproject. This fix is also queued 148 for 'maint' (but not in there yet). 149 150-- 151exec >/var/tmp/1 152O=v1.5.3.6-950-gda03a58 153echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 154git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint