1GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.0 5-------------------- 6 7* Deprecated commands and options. 8 9 - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed. 10 11* New commands and options. 12 13 - "git log" and friends take --reverse, which instructs them 14 to give their output in the order opposite from their usual. 15 They typically output from new to old, but with this option 16 their output would read from old to new. "git shortlog" 17 usually lists older commits first, but with this option, 18 they are shown from new to old. 19 20 - "git log --pretty=format:<string>" to allow more flexible 21 custom log output. 22 23 - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker 24 form of --ignore-space-change. 25 26 - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff 27 replacement with git specific enhancements. 28 29 - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input). 30 31 - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero 32 status when it found differences. In the future we might 33 want to make this the default but that would be a rather big 34 backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for 35 now. 36 37 - "git diff --quiet" is --exit-code with output turned off, 38 meant for scripted use to quickly determine if there is any 39 tree-level difference. 40 41 - Textual patch generation with "git diff" without -w/-b 42 option has been significantly optimized. "git blame" got 43 faster because of the same change. 44 45 - "git log" and "git rev-list" has been optimized 46 significantly when they are used with pathspecs. 47 48 - "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration 49 variables to help it easier to base your work on branches 50 you track from a remote site. 51 52 - "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use 53 --inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed. 54 55 - "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags 56 used for naming the given revisions only to the ones 57 matching the given pattern. 58 59 - "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes 60 to update tracking branches. 61 62 - "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS 63 repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root 64 (overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work). 65 66 - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between 67 repositories. 68 69 - "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict 70 resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools. 71 72 - A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable 73 symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are 74 checked out as regular files instead. 75 76 - You can name a commit object with its first line of the 77 message. The syntax to use is ':/message text'. E.g. 78 79 $ git show ":/object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation" 80 81 means the same thing as: 82 83 $ git show 28a4d940443806412effa246ecc7768a21553ec7 84 85 - "git bisect" learned a new command "run" that takes a script 86 to run after each revision is checked out to determine if it 87 is good or bad, to automate the bisection process. 88 89 90* Updated behaviour of existing commands. 91 92 - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects. 93 94 - "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git 95 branch names from arch names. 96 97 - git-svn got almost a rewrite. 98 99 - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git 100 to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when 101 reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when 102 writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to 103 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while 104 reading from the filesystem but files are written out with 105 LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider 106 'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is 107 decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to 108 allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on 109 paths. 110 111 - The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory, 112 without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of 113 the command with these options. This was fixed to match the 114 behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied 115 with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be 116 applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not 117 relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n> 118 option with or without --index (or --cached). 119 120 - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded 121 SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to 122 parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept 123 this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006). 124 125 - "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status. 126 127 - "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb. 128 129 - "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option. 130 131 - "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too 132 much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says 133 "v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does 134 not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which 135 makes sense). 136 137 - "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the 138 commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition. 139 140 - The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig. 141 142 - "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted 143 when it couldn't find them. 144 145 - "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner. 146 147 - "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less 148 noisy when the output does not go to tty. 149 150 - "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow 151 even when there are not many changes that needed 152 transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting 153 the heaviest parts in C. 154 155 - "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the 156 metainformation was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It 157 handles nested multipart better. 158 159 - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to. 160 161 - "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that 162 would be pushed if you run "git push remote". 163 164 - Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever 165 use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log 166 family of commands that involve reading many tree objects. 167 In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes 168 with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison 169 between the trees as early as possible. 170 171 172* Hooks 173 174 - The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from 175 the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place 176 to do so. 177 178 179* Others 180 181 - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins. 182 183 184-- 185exec >/var/tmp/1 186O=v1.5.1-rc1-63-g12d6697 187echo O=`git describe master` 188git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint 189 190# Local Variables: 191# mode: text 192# End: