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Updates since v1.5.4
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Updates since v1.5.4
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+(subsystems)
+
+ * Comes with git-gui 0.10.1
+
+(portability)
+
+ * We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
+ on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
+ users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
+
+ * Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
+ to Solaris has been applied.
+
(performance)
* On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
(performance)
* On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
(usability, bells and whistles)
(usability, bells and whistles)
+ * Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
+ options.
+
* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
+ * A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
+ enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
+ individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
+
+ * The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
+ require pathnames relative to the work tree or the current
+ subdirectory. They now can take absolute pathnames in such a
+ case as long as the pathnames do not refer outside of the
+ work tree. E.g. "git add $(pwd)/foo" now works.
+
+ * Error messages used to be sent to stderr, only to get hidden,
+ when $PAGER was in use. They now are sent to stdout along
+ with the command output to be shown in the $PAGER.
+
* A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
"foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
* A pattern "foo/" in .gitignore file now matches a directory
"foo". Pattern "foo" also matches as before.
+ * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
+ operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
+
+ * Configuration variables "url.<usethis>.insteadof = <otherurl>" can be
+ used to tell "git-fetch" and "git-push" to use different URL than what
+ is given from the command line.
+
+ * "git add -i" behaves better even before you make an initial commit.
+
+ * "git am" refused to run from a subdirectory without a good reason.
+
+ * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixes whitespace errors in a patch,
+ a line before the fix can appear as a context or preimage line in a
+ later patch, causing the patch not to apply. The command now knows to
+ see through whitespace fixes done to context lines to successfully
+ apply such a patch series.
+
+ * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
+ optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
+ the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
+ "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option
+ was ignored when branching from local branches). By default, this does
+ not happen when branching from a local branch.
+
+ * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
+ (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
+ and the other branch diverged.
+
+ * When "git checkout" has to update a lot of paths, it used to be silent
+ for 4 seconds before it showed any progress report. It is now a bit
+ more impatient and starts showing progress report early.
+
+ * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
+ inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
+ log message template to be edited.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" can now take more than one -M options.
+
* "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
naming with --match option.
* "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
cannot be described.
* "git describe" learned to limit the tags to be used for
naming with --match option.
* "git describe --contains" now barfs when the named commit
cannot be described.
- * bash completion's prompt helper function can talk about
- operation in-progress (e.g. merge, rebase, etc.).
+ * "git describe --exact-match" describes only commits that are tagged.
- * "git commit" learned a new hook "prepare-commit-msg" that can
- inspect what is going to be committed and prepare the commit
- log message template to be edited.
+ * "git describe --long" describes a tagged commit as $tag-0-$sha1,
+ instead of just showing the exact tagname.
+
+ * "git describe" warns when using a tag whose name and path contradict
+ with each other.
+
+ * "git diff" learned "--relative" option to limit and output paths
+ relative to the current directory when working in a subdirectory.
+
+ * "git diff" learned "--dirstat" option to show birds-eye-summary of
+ changes more concisely than "--diffstat".
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned --cover-letter option to generate a cover
+ letter template.
+
+ * "git gc" learned --quiet option.
+
+ * "git gc" now automatically prunes unreachable objects that are two
+ weeks old or older.
+
+ * "git gc --auto" can be disabled more easily by just setting gc.auto
+ to zero. It also tolerates more packfiles by default.
+
+ * "git grep" now knows "--name-only" is a synonym for the "-l" option.
+
+ * "git help <alias>" now reports "'git <alias>' is alias to <what>",
+ instead of saying "No manual entry for git-<alias>".
+
+ * "git help" can use different backends to show manual pages and this can
+ be configured using "man.viewer" configuration.
+
+ * "gitk" does not restore window position from $HOME/.gitk anymore (it
+ still restores the size).
+
+ * "git log --grep=<what>" learned "--fixed-strings" option to look for
+ <what> without treating it as a regular expression.
* "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
* "git gui" learned an auto-spell checking.
+ * "git push <somewhere> HEAD" and "git push <somewhere> +HEAD" works as
+ expected; they push the current branch (and only the current branch).
+ In addition, HEAD can be written as the value of "remote.<there>.push"
+ configuration variable.
+
+ * When the configuration variable "pack.threads" is set to 0, "git
+ repack" auto detects the number of CPUs and uses that many threads.
+
* "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
interactively.
* "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
recipients.
* "git send-email" learned to prompt for passwords
interactively.
* "git send-email" learned an easier way to suppress CC
recipients.
- * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git svn" and
- "git p4" improvements.
+ * "git stash" learned "pop" command, that applies the latest stash and
+ removes it from the stash, and "drop" command to discard the named
+ stash entry.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned a new subcommand "summary" to show the
+ symmetric difference between the HEAD version and the work tree version
+ of the submodule commits.
+
+ * Various "git cvsimport", "git cvsexportcommit", "git cvsserver",
+ "git svn" and "git p4" improvements.
(internal)
(internal)
* It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
breakages.
* It is now easier to write test scripts that records known
breakages.
+ * "git checkout" is rewritten in C.
+
+ * "git remote" is rewritten in C.
+
+ * Two conflict hunks that are separated by a very short span of common
+ lines are now coalesced into one larger hunk, to make the result easier
+ to read.
+
+ * Run-command API's use of file descriptors is documented clearer and
+ is more consistent now.
+
+ * diff output can be sent to FILE * that is different from stdout. This
+ will help reimplementing more things in C.
Fixes since v1.5.4
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Fixes since v1.5.4
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All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
All of the fixes in v1.5.4 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
+ * "git-http-push" did not allow deletion of remote ref with the usual
+ "push <remote> :<branch>" syntax.
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.4
-O=v1.5.4.2-122-g7cb97da
-echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint
+ * "git-rebase --abort" did not go back to the right location if
+ "git-reset" was run during the "git-rebase" session.
+ * "git imap-send" without setting imap.host did not error out but
+ segfaulted.