1 GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
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7 * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there
8 in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported.
10 * As git-commit and git-status have been rewritten, "git runstatus"
11 helper script lost all its users and has been removed.
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 $PATH. This implies:
22 - Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
23 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
24 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
25 dashless forms (e.g. "git commit") instead.
27 - Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the
28 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
29 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.
31 - Use of dashed forms with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
32 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change.
34 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
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.
42 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
43 option, and will be removed in the future.
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
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.
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.
64 * Comes with much improved gitk.
66 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n.
68 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in
69 preparation for its i18n.
71 * progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
72 Transfer commands show throughput data.
74 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do
75 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster.
77 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been
80 * Rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has
81 been greatly optimized.
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.
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".
91 * "git diff" Porcelain now respects diff.external configuration, which
92 is another way to specify GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF.
94 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
95 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
98 * Various Perforce importer updates.
100 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
102 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use
103 ":/string" syntax to name a commit.
105 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
107 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
109 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option.
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
116 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.
118 * Other minor to serious bugs in "git rebase -i" have been fixed.
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
125 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges.
127 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook.
129 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple
132 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
133 export-subst attribute.
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.
139 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the
140 various date fields in different formats.
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
147 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C.
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).
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.
158 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a
161 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the
162 remote refused to update the corresponding ref.
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.
168 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual
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
177 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand.
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.
183 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive
184 and post-update hooks.
186 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose.
188 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git
191 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched
192 into your current branch.
194 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import
195 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.
197 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on.
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.
202 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized.
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
208 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
209 from its first parent.
211 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C.
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.
217 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from
220 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are
221 descendants of a given commit.
223 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI
226 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
228 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view".
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").
234 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
235 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits
238 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of
241 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing
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
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.
254 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
255 CVS working directory.
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.
260 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
261 information in the reflog.
263 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis.
265 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in.
267 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands.
269 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the
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
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.
280 * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them
281 up; this was corrected.
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.
289 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly;
290 this has been corrected.
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.
295 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as
298 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers.
300 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
302 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
303 brought from the msysgit effort.
305 - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
307 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
313 All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
314 this release, unless otherwise noted.
316 These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance
319 * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way
320 "git apply --whitespace=warn" works.
322 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
325 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define
326 REG_NOMATCH to an even number.
330 O=v1.5.4-rc0-85-gdbedf97
331 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
332 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
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