Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt

   1 GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes
   2 ========================
   3
   4 Updates since v1.5.4
   5 --------------------
   6
   7 (subsystems)
   8
   9  * Comes with git-gui 0.9.3
  10
  11 (performance)
  12
  13  * On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
  14    is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with
  15    our software.
  16
  17  * New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used
  18    in place of command line option --max-pack-size.
  19
  20  * "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a
  21    connection to find out the set of current remote refs and
  22    another to actually download the pack data.  We now use only
  23    one connection for these tasks.
  24
  25  * "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary
  26    anymore.
  27
  28 (usability, bells and whistles)
  29
  30  * You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
  31    such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
  32
  33  * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
  34    enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
  35    individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
  36
  37  * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
  38    require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
  39    subdirectory.  They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
  40    case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
  41    work tree.  E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
  42
  43  * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
  44    when $PAGER was in use.  They now are sent to stdout along
  45    with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
  46
  47  * A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
  48    "foo".  Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
  49
  50  * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
  51    operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
  52
  53  * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
  54    used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
  55    is given from the command line.
  56
  57  * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
  58    expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
  59    In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
  60    configuration variable.
  61
  62  * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
  63
  64  * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
  65
  66  * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
  67    a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
  68    later patch, causing the patch not to apply.  The command now knows to
  69    see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
  70    apply such a patch series.
  71
  72  * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
  73    optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
  74    the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
  75    "always".  By default, this does not happen when branching from a local
  76    branch.
  77
  78  * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
  79    (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
  80    and the other branch diverged.
  81
  82  * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
  83    for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report.  It is now a bit
  84    more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
  85
  86  * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
  87    inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
  88    log message template to be edited.
  89
  90  * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
  91
  92  * "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
  93    naming with --match option.
  94
  95  * "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
  96    cannot be described.
  97
  98  * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
  99
 100  * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
 101    instead of just showing the exact tagname.
 102
 103  * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
 104    with each other.
 105
 106  * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
 107    relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
 108
 109  * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
 110    changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
 111
 112  * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
 113    letter template.
 114
 115  * "git gc" learned --quiet option.
 116
 117  * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
 118
 119  * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
 120    instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
 121
 122  * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
 123    <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
 124
 125  * "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
 126
 127  * "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
 128    interactively.
 129
 130  * "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
 131    recipients.
 132
 133  * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
 134    repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
 135
 136  * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
 137    "git p4" improvements.
 138
 139 (internal)
 140
 141  * Duplicated code between git-help and git-instaweb that
 142    launches user's preferred browser has been refactored.
 143
 144  * It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
 145    breakages.
 146
 147  * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
 148
 149  * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
 150    lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
 151    to read.
 152
 153  * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
 154    is more consistent now.
 155
 156
 157 Fixes since v1.5.4
 158 ------------------
 159
 160 All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
 161 this release, unless otherwise noted.
 162
 163  * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
 164    "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
 165
 166  * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
 167    "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
 168
 169 ---
 170 exec >/var/tmp/1
 171 O=v1.5.4.3-428-g6b48990
 172 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
 173 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint