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 11Deprecation notices 12------------------- 13 14 * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but 15 it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands 16 (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install 17 only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This 18 implies: 19 20 - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 21 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 22 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 23 dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead. 24 25 - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the 26 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 27 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 28 29 - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 30 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 31 32 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 33 to prepare for this. 34 35 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 36 post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 37 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 38 in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5. 39 40 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 41 option, and will be removed in the future. 42 43 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 44 and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future. 45 46 47Updates since v1.5.3 48-------------------- 49 50 * Comes with much improved gitk. 51 52 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n. 53 54 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in 55 preparation for its i18n. 56 57 * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. 58 Transfer commands show throughput data. 59 60 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do 61 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. 62 63 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been 64 optimized. 65 66 * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has 67 been greatly optimized. 68 69 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more naturally looking 70 pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were 71 found in the preimage, they were picked pretty much at random. 72 73 * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to 74 mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). 75 This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto". 76 77 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using 78 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration 79 variable. 80 81 * Various Perforce importer updates. 82 83 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 84 85 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use 86 ":/string" syntax to name a commit. 87 88 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 89 90 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 91 92 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 93 94 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 95 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 96 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 97 runs it for you. 98 99 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 100 101 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 102 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 103 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 104 started. 105 106 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. 107 108 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 109 110 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 111 threads. 112 113 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 114 export-subst attribute. 115 116 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 117 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 118 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 119 120 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 121 various date fields in different formats. 122 123 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 124 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 125 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 126 objects. 127 128 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 129 130 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 131 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 132 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 133 files", but we now use the safer default). 134 135 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 136 push is run. 137 138 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 139 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 140 141 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 142 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 143 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 144 145 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 146 ":ref" refspec. 147 148 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 149 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 150 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 151 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 152 back-up repository. 153 154 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 155 156 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". 157 158 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 159 160 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 161 merge". 162 163 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched 164 into your current branch. 165 166 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import 167 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. 168 169 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent 170 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual 171 safety valve. 172 173 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree 174 from its first parent. 175 176 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was 177 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" 178 (without extra args) for that. 179 180 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from 181 getting pruned. 182 183 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are 184 descendants of a given commit. 185 186 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 187 implementations. 188 189 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 190 191 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 192 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 193 are formatted. 194 195 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 196 exclude files. 197 198 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 199 annotation message. 200 201 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 202 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 203 paragraphs. 204 205 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 206 CVS working directory. 207 208 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 209 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 210 211 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 212 213 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 214 215 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 216 217 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 218 .git/config. 219 220 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 221 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 222 message. 223 224 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths which makes 225 copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. 226 227 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 228 information in the reflog. 229 230 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 231 232 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 233 brought from the msysgit effort. 234 235 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 236 237 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 238 239 240Fixes since v1.5.3 241------------------ 242 243All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 244this release, unless otherwise noted. 245 246These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 247series. 248 249 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 250 and project names. 251 252-- 253exec >/var/tmp/1 254O=v1.5.3.7-1003-gf38ca7c 255echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 256git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint