1GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * Comes with much improved gitk. 8 9 * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the 10 eye. Transfer commands show throughput data. 11 12 * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 13 14 * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 15 16 * git-rebase learned --whitespace option. 17 18 * git-remote knows --mirror mode. 19 20 * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook. 21 22 * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads. 23 24 * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 25 export-subst attribute. 26 27 * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to 28 show the various date fields in different formats. 29 30 * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a 31 variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects 32 (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates 33 too many loose objects. 34 35 * git-push has been rewritten in C. 36 37 * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen 38 if a push is run. 39 40 * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand. 41 42 * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD. 43 44 * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell. 45 46 * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose. 47 48 * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge. 49 50 * Various Perforce importer updates. 51 52 * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found 53 option. 54 55 * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn. 56 57 * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 58 59 * rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches, 60 has been greatly optimized. 61 62 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 63 64 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 65 66 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 67 brought from the msysgit effort. 68 69 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 70 71 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 72 73 74Fixes since v1.5.3 75------------------ 76 77All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 78this release, unless otherwise noted. 79 80-- 81exec >/var/tmp/1 82O=v1.5.3.5-618-g5d4138a 83echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 84git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint