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1 GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes
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 * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for
14 fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/ now.
16 * Comes with git-gui 0.8.0.
18 * Comes with updated gitk.
20 * New commands and options.
22 - "git log" learned a new option '--follow', to follow
23 renaming history of a single file.
25 - "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist.
27 - "git-cvsserver" learned new options (--base-path, --export-all,
28 --strict-paths) inspired by git-daemon.
30 - "git-submodule" command helps you manage the projects from
31 the superproject that contain them.
33 - In addition to core.compression configuration option,
34 core.loosecompression and pack.compression options can
35 independently tweak zlib compression levels used for loose
36 and packed objects.
38 - "git-ls-tree -l" shows size of blobs pointed at by the
39 tree entries, similar to "/bin/ls -l".
41 - "git-rev-list" learned --regexp-ignore-case and
42 --extended-regexp options to tweak its matching logic used
43 for --grep fitering.
45 - "git-describe --contains" is a handier way to call more
46 obscure command "git-name-rev --tags".
48 - "git gc --aggressive" tells the command to spend more cycles
49 to optimize the repository harder.
51 - "git repack" can be told to split resulting packs to avoid
52 exceeding limit specified with "--max-pack-size".
54 - "git fsck" gained --verbose option. This is really really
55 verbose but it might help you identify exact commit that is
56 corrupt in your repository.
58 - "git format-patch" learned --numbered-files option. This
59 may be useful for MH users.
61 - "git tag -n -l" shows tag annotations while listing tags.
63 - "git cvsimport" can optionally use the separate-remote layout.
65 - "git blame" can be told to see through commits that changes
66 whitespaces and indentation levels with "-w" option.
68 - "git send-email" can be told not to thread the messages when
69 sending out more than one patches.
71 - "git config" learned NUL terminated output format via -z to
72 help scripts.
74 * Updated behavior of existing commands.
76 - "git mergetool" chooses its backend more wisely, taking
77 notice of its environment such as use of X, Gnome/KDE, etc.
79 - "gitweb" shows merge commits a lot nicer than before. The
80 default view uses more compact --cc format, while the UI
81 allows to choose normal diff with any parent.
83 - snapshot files "gitweb" creates from a repository at
84 $path/$project/.git are more useful. We use $project part
85 in the filename, which we used to discard.
87 - "git cvsimort" creates lightweight tag; there is not any
88 interesting information we can record in an annotated tag,
89 and the handcrafted ones the old code created was not
90 properly formed anyway.
92 - "git-push" pretends that you immediately fetched back from
93 the remote by updating corresponding remote tracking
94 branches if you have any.
96 - The diffstat given after a merge (or a pull) honors the
97 color.diff configuration.
99 - "git-apply --whitespace=strip" removes blank lines added at
100 the end of the file.
102 - "git-fetch" over git native protocols with -v shows connection
103 status, and the IP address of the other end, to help
104 diagnosing problems.
106 - We used to have core.legacyheaders configuration, when
107 set to false, allowed git to write loose objects in a format
108 that mimicks the format used by objects stored in packs. It
109 turns out that this was not so useful. Although we will
110 continue to read objects written in that format, we do not
111 honor that configuration anymore and create loose objects in
112 the legacy/traditional format.
114 - "--find-copies-harder" option to diff family can now be
115 spelled as "-C -C" for brevity.
117 - "git-mailsplit" (hence "git-am") can read from Maildir
118 formatted mailboxes.
120 - "git-cvsserver" does not barf upon seeing "cvs login"
121 request.
123 - "pack-objects" honors "delta" attribute set in
124 .gitattributes. It does not attempt to deltify blobs that
125 come from paths with delta attribute set to false.
127 - new-workdir script (in contrib) can now be used with a bare
128 repository.
130 - "git-mergetool" learned to use gvimdiff.
132 - "gitview" (in contrib) has a better blame interface.
134 - "git log" and friends did not handle a commit log message
135 that is larger than 16kB; they do now.
137 - "--pretty=oneline" output format for "git log" and friends
138 deals with "malformed" commit log messages that have more
139 than one lines in the first paragraph better. We used to
140 show the first line, cutting the title at mid-sentence; we
141 concatenate them into a single line and treat the result as
142 "oneline".
144 * Builds
146 - old-style function definitions (most notably, a function
147 without parameter defined with "func()", not "func(void)")
148 have been eradicated.
150 * Performance Tweaks
152 - git-pack-objects avoids re-deltification cost by caching
153 small enough delta results it creates while looking for the
154 best delta candidates.
156 - diff-delta code that is used for packing has been improved
157 to work better on big files.
159 - when there are more than one pack files in the repository,
160 the runtime used to try finding an object always from the
161 newest packfile; it now tries the same packfile as we found
162 the object requested the last time, which exploits the
163 locality of references.
165 - verifying pack contents done by "git fsck --full" got boost
166 by carefully choosing the order to verify objects in them.
169 Fixes since v1.5.2
170 ------------------
172 All of the fixes in v1.5.2 maintenance series are included in
173 this release, unless otherwise noted.
175 * Bugfixes
177 - "gitweb" had trouble handling non UTF-8 text with older
178 Encode.pm Perl module.
180 --
181 exec >/var/tmp/1
182 O=v1.5.2.2-603-g7c85173
183 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
184 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint