GIT v1.5.1 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.5.0 -------------------- * Deprecated commands and options. - git-diff-stages and git-resolve have been removed. * New commands and options. - "git log" and friends take --reverse. This makes output that typically goes reverse order in chronological order. "git shortlog" usually lists commits in chronological order, but with "--reverse", they are shown in reverse chronological order. - "git diff" learned --ignore-space-at-eol. This is a weaker form of --ignore-space-change. - "git diff --no-index pathA pathB" can be used as diff replacement with git specific enhancements. - "git diff --pretty=format:" to allow more flexible custom log output. - "git diff --no-index" can read from '-' (standard input). - "git diff" also learned --exit-code to exit with non-zero status when it found differences. In the future we might want to make this the default but that would be a rather big backward incompatible change; it will stay as an option for now. - "git branch --track" can be used to set up configuration variables to help it easier to base your work on branches you track from a remote site. - "git format-patch --attach" now emits attachments. Use --inline to get an inlined multipart/mixed. - "git name-rev" learned --refs=, to limit the tags used for naming the given revisions only to the ones matching the given pattern. - "git remote update" is to run "git fetch" for defined remotes to update tracking branches. - "git cvsimport" can now take '-d' to talk with a CVS repository different from what are recorded in CVS/Root (overriding it with environment CVSROOT does not work). - "git bundle" can help sneaker-netting your changes between repositories. - "git mergetool" can help 3-way file-level conflict resolution with your favorite graphical merge tools. - A new configuration "core.symlinks" can be used to disable symlinks on filesystems that do not support them; they are checked out as regular files instead. * Updated behaviour of existing commands. - "git fsck" does not barf on corrupt loose objects. - "git archimport" allows remapping when coming up with git branch names from arch names. - git-svn got almost a rewrite. - core.autocrlf configuration, when set to 'true', makes git to convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while reading from the filesystem but files are written out with LF at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider 'text' (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is decided purely based on the contents, but the plan is to allow users to explicitly override this heuristic based on paths. - The behaviour of 'git-apply', when run in a subdirectory, without --index nor --cached were inconsistent with that of the command with these options. This was fixed to match the behaviour with --index. A patch that is meant to be applied with -p1 from the toplevel of the project tree can be applied with any custom -p option. A patch that is not relative to the toplevel needs to be applied with -p option with or without --index (or --cached). - "git diff" outputs a trailing HT when pathnames have embedded SP on +++/--- header lines, in order to help "GNU patch" to parse its output. "git apply" was already updated to accept this modified output format since ce74618d (Sep 22, 2006). - "git cvsserver" runs hooks/update and honors its exit status. - "git cvsserver" can be told to send everything with -kb. - "git diff --check" also honors the --color output option. - "git name-rev" used to stress the fact that a ref is a tag too much, by saying something like "v1.2.3^0~22". It now says "v1.2.3~22" in such a case (it still says "v1.2.3^0" if it does not talk about an ancestor of the commit that is tagged, which makes sense). - "git rev-list --boundary" now shows boundary markers for the commits omitted by --max-age and --max-count condition. - The configuration mechanism now reads $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig. - "git apply --verbose" shows what preimage lines were wanted when it couldn't find them. - "git status" in a read-only repository got a bit saner. - "git fetch" (hence "git clone" and "git pull") are less noisy when the output does not go to tty. - "git fetch" between repositories with many refs were slow even when there are not many changes that needed transferring. This has been sped up by partially rewriting the heaviest parts in C. - "git mailinfo" which splits an e-mail into a patch and the metainformation was rewritten, thanks to Don Zickus. It handles nested multipart better. - send-email learned configurable bcc and chain-reply-to. - Using objects from packs is now seriouly optimized by clever use of a cache. This should be most noticeable in git-log family of commands that involve reading many tree objects. In addition, traversing revisions while filtering changes with pathspecs is made faster by terminating the comparison between the trees as early as possible. * Hooks - The sample update hook to show how to send out notification e-mail was updated to show only new commits that appeared in the repository. Earlier, it showed new commits that appeared on the branch. * Others - git-revert, git-gc and git-cherry-pick are now built-ins. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 O=v1.5.0.5-446-g5d86501 echo O=`git describe master` git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint # Local Variables: # mode: text # End: