Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.txt

   1 GIT v1.5.6 Release Notes
   2 ========================
   3
   4 Updates since v1.5.5
   5 --------------------
   6
   7 (subsystems)
   8
   9 * Comes with updated gitk and git-gui.
  10
  11 (portability)
  12
  13 * git will build on AIX better than before now.
  14
  15 * core.ignorecase configuration variable can be used to work better on
  16   filesystems that are not case sensitive.
  17
  18 * "git init" now autodetects the case sensitivity of the filesystem and
  19   sets core.ignorecase accordingly.
  20
  21 * cpio is no longer used; neither "curl" binary (libcurl is still used).
  22
  23 (documentation)
  24
  25 * Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
  26   available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of
  27   the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation
  28   files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became
  29   "gittutorial.html").
  30
  31 (performance)
  32
  33 * "git clone" was rewritten in C.  This will hopefully help cloning a
  34   repository with insane number of refs.
  35
  36 * "git rebase --onto $there $from $branch" used to switch to the tip of
  37   $branch only to immediately reset back to $from, smudging work tree
  38   files unnecessarily.  This has been optimized.
  39
  40 * Object creation codepath in "git-svn" has been optimized by enhancing
  41   plumbing commands git-cat-file and git-hash-object.
  42
  43 (usability, bells and whistles)
  44
  45 * "git add -p" (and the "patch" subcommand of "git add -i") can choose to
  46   apply (or not apply) mode changes independently from contents changes.
  47
  48 * "git bisect help" gives longer and more helpful usage information.
  49
  50 * "git bisect" does not use a special branch "bisect" anymore; instead, it
  51   does its work on a detached HEAD.
  52
  53 * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") can be told to set up
  54   branch.<name>.rebase automatically, so that later you can say "git pull"
  55   and magically cause "git pull --rebase" to happen.
  56
  57 * "git branch --merged" and "git branch --no-merged" can be used to list
  58   branches that have already been merged (or not yet merged) to the
  59   current branch.
  60
  61 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can add a sign-off.
  62
  63 * "git commit" mentions the author identity when you are committing
  64   somebody else's changes.
  65
  66 * "git diff/log --dirstat" output is consistent between binary and textual
  67   changes.
  68
  69 * "git filter-branch" rewrites signed tags by demoting them to annotated.
  70
  71 * "git format-patch --no-binary" can produce a patch that lack binary
  72   changes (i.e. cannot be used to propagate the whole changes) meant only
  73   for reviewing.
  74
  75 * "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
  76
  77 * "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
  78
  79 * "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
  80   instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
  81   "git log --pretty=format:<custom format>" works.
  82
  83 * "git log" and friends learned the "--graph" option to show the ancestry
  84   graph at the left margin of the output.
  85
  86 * "git log" and friends can be told to use date format that is different
  87   from the default via 'log.date' configuration variable.
  88
  89 * "git send-email" now can send out messages outside a git repository.
  90
  91 * "git send-email --compose" was made aware of rfc2047 quoting.
  92
  93 * "git status" can optionally include output from "git submodule
  94   summary".
  95
  96 * "git svn" learned --add-author-from option to propagate the authorship
  97   by munging the commit log message.
  98
  99 * new object creation and looking up in "git svn" has been optimized.
 100
 101 * "gitweb" can read from a system-wide configuration file.
 102
 103 (internal)
 104
 105 * "git unpack-objects" and "git receive-pack" is now more strict about
 106   detecting breakage in the objects they receive over the wire.
 107
 108
 109 Fixes since v1.5.5
 110 ------------------
 111
 112 All of the fixes in v1.5.5 maintenance series are included in
 113 this release, unless otherwise noted.
 114
 115 And there are too numerous small fixes to otherwise note here ;-)