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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 true to allow
36 git-clean to do any damage now (the configuration variable used
37 to default to false).
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-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn.
61 * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
63 * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
64 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one
65 commits are formatted.
67 * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned
68 set of exclude files.
70 * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a
71 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1}
72 for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase
73 was started.
75 * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the
76 existing annotation message.
78 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch
79 to the CVS working directory.
81 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has
82 been optimized.
84 * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches,
85 has been greatly optimized.
87 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
89 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
91 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
92 brought from the msysgit effort.
94 - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
96 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
99 Fixes since v1.5.3
100 ------------------
102 All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
103 this release, unless otherwise noted.
105 * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
106 and project names.
108 --
109 exec >/var/tmp/1
110 O=v1.5.3.5-736-geb9d2b9
111 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
112 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint