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1 GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft)
2 ========================
4 Updates since v1.5.2
5 --------------------
7 * An initial interation of Porcelain level superproject support
8 started to take shape.
10 * Thee are a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better with
11 repositories with pathologically large blobs in them.
13 * New commands and options.
15 - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from
16 the superproject that contain them.
18 - In addition to core.compression configuration option,
19 core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can
20 independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose
21 and packed objects.
23 - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the
24 tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l".
26 - "git-rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and
27 --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used
28 for --grep fitering.
30 - "git-describe --contains" is a handier way to call more
31 obscure command "git-name-rev --tags".
33 - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles
34 to optimize the repository harder.
36 - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid
37 exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size".
39 * Updated behavior of existing commands.
41 - "git push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from
42 the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking
43 branches if you have any.
45 - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the
46 color.diff configuration.
48 - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at
49 the end of the file.
51 - fetch over git native protocols with -v shows connection
52 status, and the IP address of the other end, to help
53 diagnosing problems.
55 - core.legacyheaders is no more, although we still can read
56 objects created in a new loose object format.
58 - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir
59 formatted mailboxes.
61 - "git cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login"
62 request.
64 - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in
65 .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that
66 come from paths with delta attribute set to false.
68 - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare
69 repository.
72 * Builds
74 -
76 * Performance Tweaks
78 - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching
79 small enough delta results it creates while looking for the
80 best delta candidates.
82 - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved
83 to work better on big files.
85 - when there are more than one pack files in the repository,
86 the runtime used to try finding an object always from the
87 newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found
88 the object requested the last time, which exploits the
89 locality of references.
91 Fixes since v1.5.2
92 ------------------
94 All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in
95 this release, unless otherwise noted.
97 * Bugfixes
99 - .... This has not
100 been backported to 1.5.2.x series, as it is rather an
101 intrusive change.
104 --
105 exec >/var/tmp/1
106 O=v1.5.2-45-ged82edc
107 O=v1.5.2-172-g1a8b769
108 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
109 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint