1 GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes
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9 * Comes with git-gui 0.10.1
13 * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
14 on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
15 users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
17 * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
18 to Solaris has been applied.
22 * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
23 is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with
26 * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used
27 in place of command line option --max-pack-size.
29 * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a
30 connection to find out the set of current remote refs and
31 another to actually download the pack data. We now use only
32 one connection for these tasks.
34 * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary
37 (usability, bells and whistles)
39 * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
42 * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
43 such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
45 * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
46 enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
47 individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
49 * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
50 require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
51 subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
52 case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
53 work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
55 * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
56 when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
57 with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
59 * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
60 "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
62 * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
63 operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
65 * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
66 used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
67 is given from the command line.
69 * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
71 * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
73 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
74 a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
75 later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
76 see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
77 apply such a patch series.
79 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
80 optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
81 the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
82 "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option
83 was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does
84 not happen when branching from a local branch.
86 * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
87 (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
88 and the other branch diverged.
90 * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
91 for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
92 more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
94 * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
95 inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
96 log message template to be edited.
98 * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
100 * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
101 naming with --match option.
103 * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
106 * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
108 * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
109 instead of just showing the exact tagname.
111 * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
114 * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
115 relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
117 * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
118 changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
120 * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
123 * "git gc" learned --quiet option.
125 * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
128 * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto
129 to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default.
131 * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
133 * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
134 instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
136 * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
137 be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
139 * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
140 still restores the size).
142 * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
143 <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
145 * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
147 * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
148 expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
149 In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
150 configuration variable.
152 * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
153 repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
155 * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
158 * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
161 * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
162 removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
165 * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
166 symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
167 of the submodule commits.
169 * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver",
170 "git svn" and "git p4" improvements.
174 * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that
175 launches user's preferred browser has been refactored.
177 * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
180 * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
182 * "git remote" is rewritten in C.
184 * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
185 lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
188 * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
189 is more consistent now.
191 * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
192 will help reimplementing more things in C.
197 All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
198 this release, unless otherwise noted.
200 * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
201 "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
203 * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
204 "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
206 * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but
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