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1 GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.5.5
5 --------------------
7 (subsystems)
9 * Comes with updated gitk and git-gui.
11 (portability)
13 * git will build on AIX better than before now.
15 * core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on
16 filesystems that are not case sensitive.
18 * "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
19 sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
21 (documentation)
23 * Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
24 available to "git help" (aka "man git-<command>") as section 7 of the
25 manual pages.
27 (performance)
29 * "git clone" was rewritten in C. This will hopefully help cloning a
30 repository with insane number of refs.
32 * "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of
33 $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree
34 files unnecessarily. This has been optimized.
36 * Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing
37 plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object.
39 (usability, bells and whistles)
41 * "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to
42 apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes.
44 * "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information.
46 * "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it
47 does its work on a detached HEAD.
49 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up
50 branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull"
51 and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen.
53 * "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list
54 branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the
55 current branch.
57 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off.
59 * "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing
60 somebody else's changes.
62 * "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual
63 changes.
65 * "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated.
67 * "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary
68 changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
69 for reviewing.
71 * "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
73 * "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
75 * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
76 instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
77 "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works.
79 * "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry
80 graph at the left margin of the output.
82 * "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different
83 from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable.
85 * "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository.
87 * "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting.
89 * "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule
90 summary".
92 * "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
93 by munging the commit log message.
95 * new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized.
97 * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
99 (internal)
101 * "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about
102 detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire.
105 Fixes since v1.5.5
106 ------------------
108 All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
109 this release, unless otherwise noted.
112 --
113 exec >/var/tmp/1
114 O=v1.5.6-rc1
115 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
116 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint