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 * Next feature release of git (this change is scheduled for v1.5.5 but
18 it could slip) will by default install dashed form of commands
19 (e.g. "git-commit") outside of users' normal $PATH, and will install
20 only selected commands ("git" itself, and "gitk") in $PATH. This
23 - Using dashed form of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the
24 command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but
25 now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use
26 dashless form (e.g. "git commit") instead.
28 - Using dashed from from your scripts, without first prepending the
29 return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been
30 informally deprecated since early 2006, but now it officially is.
32 - Use of dashed form with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH; export
33 PATH" early in your script is not deprecated with this change.
35 Users are strongly encouraged to adjust their habits and scripts now
38 * The post-receive hook was introduced in March 2007 to supersede
39 post-update hook, primarily to overcome the command line length
40 limitation of the latter. Use of post-update hook will be deprecated
41 in future versions of git, perhaps in v1.5.5.
43 * "git lost-found" was deprecated in favor of "git fsck"'s --lost-found
44 option, and will be removed in the future.
46 * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C
47 and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future.
49 * From v1.5.5, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default
50 to true, which will give denser packfile (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 v1.5.5, 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 display 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 naturally looking
84 pairing. Earlier if more than one identical rename sources were
85 found in the preimage, they were 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 * HTTP proxy can be specified per remote repository using
92 remote.*.httpproxy configuration, or global http.proxy configuration
95 * Various Perforce importer updates.
97 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
99 * Any command that wants to take a commit object name can now use
100 ":/string" syntax to name a commit.
102 * "git reset" is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
104 * "git send-email" can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
106 * "git rebase" learned --whitespace option.
108 * In "git rebase", when you decide not to replay a particular change
109 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git rebase
110 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now
113 * "git rebase --interactive" mode can now work on detached HEAD.
115 * "git rebase" now detaches head during its operation, so after a
116 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1} for
117 the current branch points at the commit before the rebase was
120 * "git rebase -i" also triggers rerere to help your repeated merges.
122 * "git merge" can call the "post-merge" hook.
124 * "git pack-objects" can optionally run deltification with multiple
127 * "git archive" can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
128 export-subst attribute.
130 * "git cherry-pick" made a misguided attempt to repeat the original
131 command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a
132 commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore.
134 * "git for-each-ref" learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to show the
135 various date fields in different formats.
137 * "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of
138 "git repack" that does not lose unreferenced objects (read: safer
139 than the usual one) after the user accumulates too many loose
142 * "git clean" has been rewritten in C.
144 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
145 "git clean" without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
146 variable used to mean "do not require -f option to lose untracked
147 files", but we now use the safer default).
149 * The kinds of whitespace errors "git diff" and "git apply" notice (and
150 fix) can be controlled via 'core.whitespace' configuration variable
151 and 'whitespace' attribute in .gitattributes file.
153 * "git push" learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a
156 * "git push" does not update a tracking ref on the local side when the
157 remote refused to update the corresponding ref.
159 * "git push" learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs
160 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do
161 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side.
163 * "git push" can remove a corrupt ref at the remote site with the usual
166 * "git remote" knows --mirror mode. This is to set up configuration to
167 push into a remote repository to store local branch heads to the same
168 branch on the remote side, and remove branch heads locally removed
169 from local repository at the same time. Suitable for pushing into a
172 * "git remote" learned "rm" subcommand.
174 * "git cvsserver" can be run via "git shell".
176 * "git cvsserver" acts more like receive-pack by running post-receive
177 and post-update hooks.
179 * "git am" and "git rebase" are far less verbose.
181 * "git pull" learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying "git
184 * "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched
185 into your current branch.
187 * "git fast-export" produces datastream that can be fed to fast-import
188 to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.
190 * "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on.
192 * "git add -p" is a short-hand to go directly to the selective patch
193 subcommand in the interactive command loop and to exit when done.
195 * "git add -i" UI has been colorized.
197 * "git commit --allow-empty" allows you to create a single-parent
198 commit that records the same tree as its parent, overriding the usual
201 * "git commit --amend" can amend a merge that does not change the tree
202 from its first parent.
204 * "git commit" has been rewritten in C.
206 * "git stash random-text" does not create a new stash anymore. It was
207 a UI mistake. Use "git stash save random-text", or "git stash"
208 (without extra args) for that.
210 * "git prune --expire <time>" can exempt young loose objects from
213 * "git branch --contains <commit>" can list branches that are
214 descendants of a given commit.
216 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive GUI
219 * "git bisect" learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
221 * "git bisect visualize" learned a shorter synonym "git bisect view".
223 * "git bisect visualize" runs "git log" in a non-windowed
224 environments. It also can be told what command to run (e.g. "git
225 bisect visualize tig").
227 * "git format-patch" learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
228 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one commits
231 * "git ls-files" learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned set of
234 * "git tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the existing
237 * "git tag -m one -m bar" (multiple -m options) behaves similarly to
238 "git commit"; the parameters to -m options are formatted as separate
241 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch to the
242 CVS working directory.
244 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path" to allow
245 checking out a path outside the current directory without cd'ing up.
247 * "git checkout" from and to detached HEAD leaves a bit more
248 information in the reflog.
250 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier diagnosis.
252 * "git merge-ours" is now built-in.
254 * "git svn" learned "info" and "show-externals" subcommands.
256 * "git svn" run from a subdirectory failed to read settings from the
259 * "git svn" learned --use-log-author option, which picks up more
260 descriptive name from From: and Signed-off-by: lines in the commit
263 * "git svn" wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings
264 between svn and git; a new representation that is much more compact
265 for this information has been introduced to correct this.
267 * "git svn" left temporary index files it used without cleaning them
268 up; this was corrected.
270 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths, which
271 makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm easier. The
272 traditional behaviour to show the full path relative to the top of
273 the work tree can be had by setting status.relativepaths
274 configuration variable to true.
276 * "git blame" kept text for each annotated revision in core needlessly;
277 this has been corrected.
279 * "git shortlog" learned to default to HEAD when the standard input is
280 a terminal and the user did not give any revision parameter.
282 * "git shortlog" learned "-e" option to show e-mail addresses as well as
285 * "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers.
287 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
289 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
290 brought from the msysgit effort.
292 - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
294 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
300 All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
301 this release, unless otherwise noted.
303 These fixes are only in v1.5.4 and not backported to v1.5.3 maintenance
306 * The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way
307 "git apply --whitespace=warn" works.
309 * "git svn" talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
312 * "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define
313 REG_NOMATCH to an even number.
317 O=v1.5.4-rc0-35-g530e741
318 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
319 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
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