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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.

102

103

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