1 GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
2 ========================
7 * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn". It is still there
8 in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported.
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 $PATH. This
20 - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
21 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
22 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
23 dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead.
25 - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the
26 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
27 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.
29 - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
30 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change.
32 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
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.
40 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
41 option, and will be removed in the future.
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.
50 * Comes with much improved gitk.
52 * Comes with "git gui" 0.9.1 with i18n.
54 * gitk is now merged as a subdirectory of git.git project, in
55 preparation for its i18n.
57 * progress display from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye.
58 Transfer commands show throughput data.
60 * many commands that pay attention to per-directory .gitignore now do
61 so lazily, which makes the usual case go much faster.
63 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has been
66 * Rename detection of diff family, while detecting exact matches, has
67 been greatly optimized.
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.
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".
77 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
78 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
81 * Various Perforce importer updates.
83 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
85 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use
86 ":/string" syntax to name a commit.
88 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
90 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
92 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option.
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
99 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.
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
106 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges.
108 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook.
110 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple
113 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
114 export-subst attribute.
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.
120 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the
121 various date fields in different formats.
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
128 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C.
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).
135 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a
138 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the
139 remote refused to update the corresponding ref.
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.
145 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual
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
154 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand.
156 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell".
158 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose.
160 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git
163 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched
164 into your current branch.
166 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import
167 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.
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
173 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
174 from its first parent.
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.
180 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from
183 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are
184 descendants of a given commit.
186 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI
189 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
191 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
192 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits
195 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of
198 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing
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
205 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
206 CVS working directory.
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.
211 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis.
213 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in.
215 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands.
217 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the
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
224 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths which makes
225 copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier.
227 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
228 information in the reflog.
230 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
232 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
233 brought from the msysgit effort.
235 - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
237 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
243 All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
244 this release, unless otherwise noted.
246 These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance
249 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
254 O=v1.5.3.7-1003-gf38ca7c
255 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
256 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
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