| blob | 849b6b96047d305122c24cd4728467ffde551238 |
1 GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.5.4
5 --------------------
7 (performance)
9 * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
10 is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with
11 our software.
13 * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used
14 in place of command line option --max-pack-size.
16 * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a
17 connection to find out the set of current remote refs and
18 another to actually download the pack data. We now use only
19 one connection for these tasks.
21 * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary
22 anymore.
24 (usability, bells and whistles)
26 * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
27 such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
29 * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
30 enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
31 individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
33 * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
34 require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
35 subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
36 case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
37 work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
39 * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
40 when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
41 with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
43 * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
44 "foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
46 * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
47 operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
49 * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
50 used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
51 is given from the command line.
53 * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
54 expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
55 In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
56 configuration variable.
58 * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
60 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
61 a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
62 later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
63 see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
64 apply such a patch series.
66 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
67 optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
68 the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
69 "always". By default, this does not happen when branching from a local
70 branch.
72 * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
73 (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
74 and the other branch diverged.
76 * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
77 for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
78 more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
80 * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
81 inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
82 log message template to be edited.
84 * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
85 naming with --match option.
87 * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
88 cannot be described.
90 * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
92 * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
93 relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
95 * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
96 changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
98 * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
99 letter template.
101 * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
103 * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
104 instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
106 * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
107 <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
109 * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
111 * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
112 interactively.
114 * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
115 recipients.
117 * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
118 repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
120 * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
121 "git p4" improvements.
123 (internal)
125 * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that
126 launches user's preferred browser has been refactored.
128 * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
129 breakages.
131 * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
133 * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
134 lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
135 to read.
137 * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
138 is more consistent now.
141 Fixes since v1.5.4
142 ------------------
144 All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
145 this release, unless otherwise noted.
147 ---
148 exec >/var/tmp/1
149 O=v1.5.4.3-339-g7cf7f54
150 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
151 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint