1 GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes
2 ========================
9 * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3
13 * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
14 is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with
17 * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used
18 in place of command line option --max-pack-size.
20 * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a
21 connection to find out the set of current remote refs and
22 another to actually download the pack data. We now use only
23 one connection for these tasks.
25 * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary
28 (usability, bells and whistles)
30 * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
31 such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
33 * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
34 enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
35 individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
37 * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
38 require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
39 subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
40 case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
41 work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
43 * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
44 when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
45 with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
47 * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
48 "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
50 * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
51 operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
53 * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
54 used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
55 is given from the command line.
57 * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
58 expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
59 In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
60 configuration variable.
62 * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
64 * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
66 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
67 a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
68 later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
69 see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
70 apply such a patch series.
72 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
73 optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
74 the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
75 "always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local
78 * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
79 (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
80 and the other branch diverged.
82 * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
83 for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
84 more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
86 * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
87 inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
88 log message template to be edited.
90 * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
92 * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
93 naming with --match option.
95 * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
98 * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
100 * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
101 instead of just showing the exact tagname.
103 * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
106 * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
107 relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
109 * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
110 changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
112 * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
115 * "git gc" learned --quiet option.
117 * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
119 * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
120 instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
122 * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
123 <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
125 * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
127 * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
130 * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
133 * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
134 repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
136 * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
137 "git p4" improvements.
141 * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that
142 launches user's preferred browser has been refactored.
144 * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
147 * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
149 * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
150 lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
153 * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
154 is more consistent now.
160 All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
161 this release, unless otherwise noted.
163 * "git-daemon" did not send early errors to syslog.
165 * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
166 "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
168 * "git-log --merge" did not well work with --left-right option.
170 * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
171 "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
175 O=v1.5.4.3-428-g6b48990
176 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
177 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
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