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With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
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With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
-installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
+installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and
some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command
line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in
scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
"git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
+An earlier change to page "git status" output was overwhelmingly unpopular
+and has been reverted.
+
Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.
By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.
By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
-introduced in v1.5.2.
+introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories
+backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
+to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
+
+We used to prevent sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ from
+triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as
+unexecutable, but on some filesystems, this approach does not work.
+They are now shipped with ".sample" suffix. If you want to activate
+any of these samples as-is, rename them to drop the ".sample" suffix,
+instead of running "chmod +x" on them. For example, you can rename
+hooks/post-update.sample to hooks/post-update to enable the sample
+hook that runs update-server-info, in order to make repositories
+friendly to dumb protocols (i.e. HTTP).
GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.
GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.
+The ".dotest" temporary area "git am" and "git rebase" use is now moved
+inside the $GIT_DIR, to avoid mistakes of adding it to the project by
+accident.
+
An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed.
An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed.
gangs.
* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
gangs.
* Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with
- *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by
- relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on
- some filesystems this approach does not work. Instead of running
- "chmod +x" on them, the users who want to activate these samples
- as-is can now rename them dropping *.sample suffix.
+ *.sample.
* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
* perl's in-place edit (-i) does not work well without backup files on Windows;
some tests are rewritten to cope with this.
(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
(performance, robustness, sanity etc.)
-* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
+* index-pack used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain.
+ This has been optimized.
* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
* reduced excessive inlining to shrink size of the "git" binary.
repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
objects are available.
repack -a -f" can be used to fix such a corruption as long as necessary
objects are available.
+* Performance of "git-blame -C -C" operation is vastly improved.
+
* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
repositories with insanely large number of refs.
* git-clone does not create refs in loose form anymore (it behaves as
if you immediately ran git-pack-refs after cloning). This will help
repositories with insanely large number of refs.
(usability, bells and whistles)
(usability, bells and whistles)
+* even more documentation pages are now accessible via "man" and "git help".
+
* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop
the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful
when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree,
* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop
the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful
when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree,
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
+* git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating
+ zip archive.
+
+* git-archive's command line options --exec and --remote can take their
+ parameters as separate command line arguments, similar to other commands.
+ IOW, both "--exec=path" and "--exec path" are now supported.
+
* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics
similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch
is ahead/behind.
* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics
similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch
is ahead/behind.
* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
+* "git-clone --mirror" is a handy way to set up a bare mirror repository.
+
+* git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c".
+
* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
+* "git-diff -p" learned to grab a better hunk header lines in
+ BibTex, Pascal/Delphi, and Ruby files and also pays attention to
+ chapter and part boundary in TeX documents.
+
* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
+* fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks.
+
+* "gitk" left background process behind after being asked to dig very deep
+ history and the user killed the UI; the process is killed when the UI goes
+ away now.
+
* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is
rewound.
* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution
with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable.
* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is
rewound.
* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution
with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable.
+* git-rev-parse learned $commit^! and $commit^@ notations used in "log"
+ family. These notations are available in gitk as well, because the gitk
+ command internally uses rev-parse to interpret its arguments.
+
* git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it
* git-rev-list learned --children option to show child commits it
- encountered during the traversal, instead of shoing parent commits.
+ encountered during the traversal, instead of showing parent commits.
* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
* git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way
git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind.
* git-status gives the remote tracking statistics similar to the way
git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch is ahead/behind.
+* "git-svn dcommit" is now aware of auto-props setting the subversion user
+ has.
+
* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
(internal)
(internal)
+* git-merge has been reimplemented in C.
+
Fixes since v1.5.6
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Fixes since v1.5.6
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All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
- * "git fetch" into an empty repository used to remind the fetch will
- be huge by saying "no common commits", but it is already known by
- the user anyway (need to backport 8cb560f to 'maint').
+ * git-clone ignored its -u option; the fix needs to be backported to
+ 'maint';
+
+ * git-mv used to lose the distinction between changes that are staged
+ and that are only in the working tree, by staging both in the index
+ after moving such a path.
+
+ * "git-rebase -i -p" rewrote the parents to wrong ones when amending
+ (either edit or squash) was involved, and did not work correctly
+ when fast forwarding.
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6.3-350-g499027b
-echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint