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1 GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.5.3
5 --------------------
7 * Comes with much improved gitk.
9 * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the
10 eye. Transfer commands show throughput data.
12 * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
14 * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
16 * git-rebase learned --whitespace option.
18 * git-remote knows --mirror mode.
20 * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook.
22 * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads.
24 * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
25 export-subst attribute.
27 * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to
28 show the various date fields in different formats.
30 * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a
31 variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects
32 (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates
33 too many loose objects.
35 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
36 git-clean to do any damage (lack of the configuration variable
37 used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer default).
39 * git-push has been rewritten in C.
41 * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen
42 if a push is run.
44 * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand.
46 * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD.
48 * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell.
50 * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose.
52 * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge.
54 * Various Perforce importer updates.
56 * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found
57 option.
59 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive
60 GUI implementations.
62 * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn.
64 * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
66 * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
67 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one
68 commits are formatted.
70 * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned
71 set of exclude files.
73 * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a
74 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1}
75 for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase
76 was started.
78 * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the
79 existing annotation message.
81 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch
82 to the CVS working directory.
84 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path"
85 to allow checking out a path outside the current directory
86 without cd'ing up.
88 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has
89 been optimized.
91 * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches,
92 has been greatly optimized.
94 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
96 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
98 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
99 brought from the msysgit effort.
101 - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
103 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
106 Fixes since v1.5.3
107 ------------------
109 All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
110 this release, unless otherwise noted.
112 * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
113 and project names.
115 * "git rev-list --objects A..B" choked when the lower boundary
116 of the range involved a subproject. This fix is also queued
117 for 'maint' (but not in there yet).
119 --
120 exec >/var/tmp/1
121 O=v1.5.3.6-727-g5d3d1ca
122 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
123 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint