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 * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus" 11 helper script lost all its users and has been removed. 12 13 14Deprecation notices 15------------------- 16 17 * The next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.6.0) 18 will by default install dashed form of commands (e.g. "git-commit") 19 outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install only selected 20 commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This implies: 21 22 - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the 23 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but 24 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use 25 dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead. 26 27 - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the 28 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been 29 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is. 30 31 - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export 32 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change. 33 34 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now 35 to prepare for this. 36 37 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede 38 the post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length 39 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated 40 in future versions of git, starting from v1.6.0. 41 42 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found 43 option, and will be removed in the future. 44 45 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C 46 and works for all transports; "git peek-remote" will be removed in 47 the future. 48 49 * From v1.6.0, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default 50 to true, which will give denser packfiles (i.e. more efficient storage). 51 The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able 52 to directly use a repository packed using this setting. 53 54 * From v1.6.0, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2, 55 which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to 56 data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1 57 of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly 58 access corresponding pack files. 59 60 61Updates since v1.5.3 62-------------------- 63 64 * Comes with much improved gitk. 65 66 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n. 67 68 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in 69 preparation for its i18n. 70 71 * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye. 72 Transfer commands show throughput data. 73 74 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do 75 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster. 76 77 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been 78 optimized. 79 80 * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has 81 been greatly optimized. 82 83 * Rename detection of diff family tries to make more natural looking 84 pairing. Earlier, if multiple identical rename sources were 85 found in the preimage, the source used was picked pretty much at random. 86 87 * Value "true" for color.diff and color.status configuration used to 88 mean "always" (even when the output is not going to a terminal). 89 This has been corrected to mean the same thing as "auto". 90 91 * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which 92 is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF. 93 94 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using 95 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration 96 variable. 97 98 * Various Perforce importer updates. 99 100 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved. 101 102 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use 103 ":/string" syntax to name a commit. 104 105 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q. 106 107 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 108 109 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option. 110 111 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change 112 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase 113 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now 114 runs it for you. 115 116 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD. 117 118 * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed. 119 120 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a 121 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for 122 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was 123 started. 124 125 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges. 126 127 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook. 128 129 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple 130 threads. 131 132 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 133 export-subst attribute. 134 135 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original 136 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a 137 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore. 138 139 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the 140 various date fields in different formats. 141 142 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of 143 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer 144 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose 145 objects. 146 147 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C. 148 149 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow 150 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration 151 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked 152 files", but we now use the safer default). 153 154 * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and 155 fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable 156 and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file. 157 158 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a 159 push is run. 160 161 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the 162 remote refused to update the corresponding ref. 163 164 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs 165 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do 166 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side. 167 168 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual 169 ":ref" refspec. 170 171 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to 172 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same 173 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed 174 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a 175 back-up repository. 176 177 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand. 178 179 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell". Also, "cvs" is 180 recognized as a synonym for "git cvsserver", so that CVS users 181 can be switched to git just by changing their login shell. 182 183 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive 184 and post-update hooks. 185 186 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose. 187 188 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git 189 merge". 190 191 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched 192 into your current branch. 193 194 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import 195 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository. 196 197 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on. 198 199 * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch 200 subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done. 201 202 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized. 203 204 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent 205 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual 206 safety valve. 207 208 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree 209 from its first parent. 210 211 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C. 212 213 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was 214 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash" 215 (without extra args) for that. 216 217 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from 218 getting pruned. 219 220 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are 221 descendants of a given commit. 222 223 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI 224 implementations. 225 226 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits. 227 228 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view". 229 230 * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed 231 environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git 232 bisect visualize tig"). 233 234 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable 235 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits 236 are formatted. 237 238 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of 239 exclude files. 240 241 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing 242 annotation message. 243 244 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to 245 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate 246 paragraphs. 247 248 * The format "git show" outputs an annotated tag has been updated to 249 include "Tagger: " and "Date: " lines from the tag itself. Strictly 250 speaking this is a backward incompatible change, but this is a 251 reasonable usability fix and people's scripts shouldn't have been 252 relying on the exact output from "git show" Porcelain anyway. 253 254 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the 255 CVS working directory. 256 257 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow 258 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up. 259 260 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more 261 information in the reflog. 262 263 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis. 264 265 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in. 266 267 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands. 268 269 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the 270 .git/config. 271 272 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more 273 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit 274 message. 275 276 * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings 277 between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact 278 for this information has been introduced to correct this. 279 280 * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them 281 up; this was corrected. 282 283 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which 284 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The 285 traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of 286 the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths 287 configuration variable to false. 288 289 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly; 290 this has been corrected. 291 292 * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is 293 a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter. 294 295 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as 296 authors' names. 297 298 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers. 299 300 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably 301 302 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API, 303 brought from the msysgit effort. 304 305 - introduction and more use of the option parser API. 306 307 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API. 308 309 310Fixes since v1.5.3 311------------------ 312 313All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 314this release, unless otherwise noted. 315 316These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance 317series. 318 319 * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way 320 "git apply --whitespace=warn" works. 321 322 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch 323 and project names. 324 325 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define 326 REG_NOMATCH to an even number. 327 328-- 329exec >/var/tmp/1 330O=v1.5.4-rc0-85-gdbedf97 331echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 332git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint