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1 GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.5.0
5 --------------------
7 * Deprecated commands and options.
9 - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed.
11 * New commands and options.
13 - "git log" and friends take --reverse. This makes output
14 that typically goes reverse order in chronological order.
15 "git shortlog" usually lists commits in chronological order,
16 but with "--reverse", they are shown in reverse
17 chronological order.
19 - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker
20 form of --ignore-space-change.
22 - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff
23 replacement with git specific enhancements.
25 - "git name-rev" learned --refs=<pattern>, to limit the tags
26 used for naming the given revisions only to the ones
27 matching the given pattern.
29 - "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes
30 to update tracking branches.
32 - "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS
33 repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root
34 (overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work).
36 - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between
37 repositories.
40 * Updated behaviour of existing commands.
42 - git-svn got almost a rewrite.
44 - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git
45 to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when
46 reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
47 writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to
48 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
49 reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
50 LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider
51 'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is
52 decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to
53 allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on
54 paths.
56 - The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory,
57 without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of
58 the command with these options. This was fixed to match the
59 behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied
60 with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be
61 applied with any custom -p<n> option. A patch that is not
62 relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p<n>
63 option with or without --index (or --cached).
65 - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded
66 SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to
67 parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept
68 this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006).
70 - "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status.
72 - "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb.
74 - "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option.
76 - "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too
77 much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says
78 "v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does
79 not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which
80 makes sense).
82 - "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the
83 commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition.
85 - The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
87 - "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted
88 when it couldn't find them.
90 - "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner.
92 * Hooks
94 - The sample update hook to show how to send out notification
95 e-mail was updated to show only new commits that appeared in
96 the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared
97 on the branch.
99 --
100 exec >/var/tmp/1
101 O=v1.5.0.2-259-g16d5315
102 echo O=`git describe master`
103 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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