GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.5.0 -------------------- * Deprecated commands and options. - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed. * New commands and options. - "git log" and friends take --reverse, which instructs them to give their output in the order opposite from their usual. They typically output from new to old, but with this option their output would read from old to new. "git shortlog" usually lists older commits first, but with this option, they are shown from new to old. - "git log --pretty=format:" to allow more flexible custom log output. - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker form of --ignore-space-change. - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff replacement with git specific enhancements. - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input). - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero status when it found differences. In the future we might want to make this the default but that would be a rather big backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for now. - "git diff --quiet" is --exit-code with output turned off, meant for scripted use to quickly determine if there is any tree-level difference. - Textual patch generation with "git diff" without -w/-b option has been significantly optimized. "git blame" got faster because of the same change. - "git log" and "git rev-list" has been optimized significantly when they are used with pathspecs. - "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration variables to help it easier to base your work on branches you track from a remote site. - "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use --inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed. - "git name-rev" learned --refs=, to limit the tags used for naming the given revisions only to the ones matching the given pattern. - "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes to update tracking branches. - "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root (overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work). - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between repositories. - "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools. - A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are checked out as regular files instead. - You can name a commit object with its first line of the message. The syntax to use is ':/message text'. E.g. $ git show ":/object name: introduce ':/' notation" means the same thing as: $ git show 28a4d940443806412effa246ecc7768a21553ec7 - "git bisect" learned a new command "run" that takes a script to run after each revision is checked out to determine if it is good or bad, to automate the bisection process. * Updated behaviour of existing commands. - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects. - "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git branch names from arch names. - git-svn got almost a rewrite. - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while reading from the filesystem but files are written out with LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider 'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on paths. - The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory, without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of the command with these options. This was fixed to match the behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be applied with any custom -p option. A patch that is not relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p option with or without --index (or --cached). - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006). - "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status. - "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb. - "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option. - "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says "v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which makes sense). - "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition. - The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig. - "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted when it couldn't find them. - "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner. - "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less noisy when the output does not go to tty. - "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow even when there are not many changes that needed transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting the heaviest parts in C. - "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the metainformation was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It handles nested multipart better. - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to. - "git remote show $remote" also talks about branches that would be pushed if you run "git push remote". - Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log family of commands that involve reading many tree objects. In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison between the trees as early as possible. * Hooks - The part to send out notification e-mails was removed from the sample update hook, as it was not an appropriate place to do so. * Others - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 O=v1.5.1-rc1-63-g12d6697 echo O=`git describe master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint # Local Variables: # mode: text # End: