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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 * Comes with git-gui 0.9.0 with i18n.
11 * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found
12 option.
14 * git-peek-remote is deprecated, as git-ls-remote was written in C and
15 works for all transports.
17 * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the
18 eye. Transfer commands show throughput data.
20 * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
22 * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
24 * git-rebase learned --whitespace option.
26 * In git-rebase, when you decide not to replay a particular change
27 after the command stopped with a conflict, you can say "git-rebase
28 --skip" without first running "git reset --hard", as the command now
29 runs it for you.
31 * git-remote knows --mirror mode.
33 * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook.
35 * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads.
37 * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
38 export-subst attribute.
40 * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to
41 show the various date fields in different formats.
43 * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a
44 variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects
45 (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates
46 too many loose objects.
48 * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
49 git-clean without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
50 variable used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer
51 default).
53 * git-clean has been rewritten in C.
55 * git-push has been rewritten in C.
57 * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen
58 if a push is run.
60 * git-push does not update a tracking ref on the pushing side when the
61 remote refused to update the corresponding ref.
63 * git-push learned --mirror option. This is to push the local refs
64 one-to-one to the remote, and deletes refs from the remote that do
65 not exist anymore in the repository on the pushing side.
67 * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand.
69 * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD.
71 * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell.
73 * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose.
75 * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge.
77 * Various Perforce importer updates.
79 * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive
80 GUI implementations.
82 * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn.
84 * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
86 * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
87 to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one
88 commits are formatted.
90 * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned
91 set of exclude files.
93 * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a
94 successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1}
95 for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase
96 was started.
98 * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the
99 existing annotation message.
101 * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch
102 to the CVS working directory.
104 * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path"
105 to allow checking out a path outside the current directory
106 without cd'ing up.
108 * "git send-email --dry-run" shows full headers for easier
109 diagnosis.
111 * "git merge-ours" is built-in.
113 * "git svn" learned "info" subcommand.
115 * "git status" from a subdirectory now shows relative paths
116 which makes copy-and-pasting for git-checkout/git-add/git-rm
117 easier.
119 * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has
120 been optimized.
122 * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches,
123 has been greatly optimized.
125 * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
127 * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
129 - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
130 brought from the msysgit effort.
132 - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
134 - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
137 Fixes since v1.5.3
138 ------------------
140 All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
141 this release, unless otherwise noted.
143 * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
144 and project names.
146 * "git rev-list --objects A..B" choked when the lower boundary
147 of the range involved a subproject. This fix is also queued
148 for 'maint' (but not in there yet).
150 --
151 exec >/var/tmp/1
152 O=v1.5.3.6-950-gda03a58
153 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
154 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint