1GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.5.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * Comes with much improved gitk. 8 9 * git-reset is now built-in. 10 11 * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH. 12 13 * git-rebase learned --whitespace option. 14 15 * git-remote knows --mirror mode. 16 17 * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook. 18 19 * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads. 20 21 * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with 22 export-subst attribute. 23 24 * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to 25 show the various date fields in different formats. 26 27 * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a 28 variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects 29 (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates 30 too many loose objects. 31 32 * git-push has been rewritten in C. 33 34 * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen 35 if a push is run. 36 37 * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand. 38 39 * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD. 40 41 * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell. 42 43 * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose. 44 45 * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge. 46 47 * Various Perforce importer updates. 48 49Fixes since v1.5.3 50------------------ 51 52All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in 53this release, unless otherwise noted. 54 55-- 56exec >/var/tmp/1 57O=v1.5.3.4-450-g952a9e5 58echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master` 59git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint